DENVER — The star of the Western Conservative Summit is not either of the two presidential candidates who headlined the event. It is not House Republicans Ken Buck or Harriet Hageman or even Lauren Boebert, who Jeff Hunt, the co-chairman of the annual conference, says is routinely the most demanded…
DENVER — The star of the Western Conservative Summit is not either of the two presidential candidates who headlined the event. It is not House Republicans Ken Buck or Harriet Hageman or even Lauren Boebert, who Jeff Hunt, the co-chairman of the annual conference, says is routinely the most demanded speaker.
Instead, the belle de jour is Riley Gaines, and the 23-year-old swimmer is maybe making the attendees of the summit, which is hosted by Colorado Christian University, care more about feminism than they have in some time.
At the Colorado Convention Center, Gaines elicits cheers that border on screams. While CCU students, obliged to attend the two-day conference, are often reserved in their plaudits for other speakers, Zoomers can't get enough of Gaines. In pictures, she's distinguished only by her platinum blonde waves, as she's engulfed by literally hundreds of teenagers and 20-something conservatives.
Gaines has previously admitted that she never considered herself a feminist before becoming a right-wing darling in her campaign against biological men in women's sports. Third-wave feminism, Gaines has said,"almost goes against the co-dependency that I believe the sexes should have."And evidently, Gaines has helped turn the tide for the entire conservative movement.
Until Gaines' infamous fight against Thomas, conservatives really only invoked women's sports to mock the WNBA, and Title IX was an accursed tool to discriminate against men persecuted by a witch hunt."Who is that?" a kindly Boomer woman asks me, barely able to see Gaines but incapable of missing the cheers surrounding her. When I give her the brief background, this woman immediately stops me, noting that actually, she remembers Gaines from Facebook.
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