Story highlights CPAC activists make their pitch to young attendees

The merchandise invites conservatives and trolls liberals

National Harbor, Maryland (CNN) It was early Friday afternoon on the ground floor of the Conservative Political Action Conference here, just hours after President Donald Trump had stoked the faithful, and the "art therapy lounge" was quietly abuzz.

Two young women plonked themselves down on a pair of beanbag chairs, grabbed "snowflake coloring books" and began to unpack boxes of colored pencils.

"It's kind of a parody of snowflakes, quote-unquote, on college campuses who get easily offended about things that they don't agree with and tend to need safe spaces in order to de-stress over those triggered feelings," explained Pardes Seleh, the contributors editor for Red Alert, a conservative political website for millennials. "So we made a mock safe space over here."

Red Alert politics has an art therapy lounge. It's to tease liberals, but they say it's been really popular here. A post shared by gregjkrieg (@gregjkrieg) on Feb 24, 2017 at 10:28am PST

Turns out, it was a bigger draw than she'd expected. The target audience was sold, snatching up the books and pencils for future rounds of therapeutic scribbling.

Seleh leafed through the book, coming to a cartoonist's rendering of Trump and top aides Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus in a small boat crossing the Potomac River.

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