The Director of the National Economic Council, Larry Kudlow, appealed to the conservative diehard at CPAC to 'put socialism on trial' and convict it for its past sins.

"I'm hearing 'tax the rich' again and that they need to pay their fair share", complained Kudlow to the CPAC audience. "I thought I put that to bed 30 years ago.

"$75 million is the cost of the Green New Deal; they are preposing complete government control of the entire economy, central planning on a grand scale. It has never worked.

"Trump has ended the war on energy, ended the war on business, and ended the war on success.

"We have made great strides in a couple years, now we have to build on that. Join us to put socialism on trial and convict it!"