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It's interesting how identity politics and Ann Coulter-style tactics have now blossomed. But they were always there in CPAC.

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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
Columnist
Writer
Weymouth
Massachusetts
Mark Stephen Shields
Tactics
Identity
Style
Politics
Interesting
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Coulter
Blossomed

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