Anti-Trump conservative summit charts alternative to CPAC Maga-fest

Principles First has become a venue for anti-Maga conservatives and hopes to be a rightwing exit ramp'

While Donald Trump and his acolytes take a victory lap at the Conservative Political Action Conference this week, some of the president's staunchest right-leaning critics will convene for their own event just 10 miles away.

The Principles First summit, which will be held in Washington from Friday to Sunday, has become a venue for anti-Trump conservatives to voice their deep-seated concerns about the Make America great again" faction of the Republican party, and the gathering has now grown in size and scope. As its organizers confront another four years of Trump's leadership, they are stretching beyond party lines with speakers such as the billionaire Mark Cuban and Jared Polis, the Democratic governor of Colorado, to craft their vision for a new approach to US politics.