Episode 14 - Alan Monsen on RNCs, CPACs, and How the Republican Party Has Changed

Alan Monsen has attended every Republican National Convention since 2008, when he was a 23-year-old political science student at the University of Utah. Since that point, Alan has lived a life: he received a master’s degree in war studies and international relations from King’s College, London, and a master’s degree in finance from the University of Utah; ran as a Republican for a Democrat-dominated seat in Utah’s state senate; and has worked a variety of jobs in the public and private sectors, including as a financial crimes specialist at Wells Fargo, senior analyst at Goldman Sachs, financial regulator for the state of Utah, and, now, as a director at a local real estate development and investment firm.

I invited him over to talk about his experience attending the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference, which took place from February 19-22 in Washington, D.C., but our conversation went far beyond that, from Alan’s background to the future of the Republican Party.

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