House Republicans have come up with a foolproof way to make sure there are no secret socialists at their 2019 retreat in Baltimore.
To log onto the WiFi at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel, GOP retreat attendees are required to enter a password that doubles as a disavowal of the political philosophy that been used by the right to skewer Democratic leaders like Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, The Washington Post's Rachael Bade reports:
It's not even the first time the GOP has rolled out a pointed WiFi password at one of their events; everyone attending the Republican debates back in 2015 was required to enter in "StopHillary" if they wanted to check Twitter without draining their phone data.
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