The 2020 Republican National Convention is the Trump presidency in microcosm: precedent is overturned, norms disregarded, and authorities ignored or dismissed in favor of the men and women who comprise the Trump coalition. It's polarizing and riveting. And the whole thing makes for great television.
The second night of the convention featured high-profile speeches from First Lady Melania Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Eric Trump. But, once again, the real stars were President Trump and the cast of Americans who had been selected to illustrate aspects of his multi-front war on the political and media elite. We heard from a Maine lobsterman, a Wisconsin dairy farmer, a truck driver from Ohio, and a police officer from New Mexico who adopted the child of a woman addicted to opiates. Nick Sandmann explained how mainstream media outlets defamed him based on a photo that went viral on Twitter. Sandmann brought a bit of meme culture to the proceedings when he "trolled" his media antagonists by putting on a MAGA cap at the end of his speech.
Trump sent many reporters and commentators into a fury when he pardoned a former convict and presided over a naturalization ceremony in the middle of the convention. But the whole thing worked, both as political theater and as campaign strategy. Trump's interactions with normal Americans humanize him and allow him to display rarely seen compassion and to utilize his self-deprecating sense of humor. And the men and women highlighted in these two segments are living rebukes to the critical narratives surrounding Trump on race and immigration. Trump's exchanges with each of the new Americans were charming and amusing. After he finished reading aloud the resume of a new U.S. citizen from Lebanon who is a multilingual psychologist, Trump quipped, "In other words, she can figure me out." Everyone in the room laughed.
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4 comments:
This bipartisanship has just gotten ridiculous. I don't look to the Fed to affirm my thoughts, beliefs and morals or define American Culture or whatever DREAM. I just want them to be fiscally responsible with my tax money and create and up keep the infrastructure of this reality so I can make a living and decide for myself what I think and believe. I don't need to run with any populous or cowering collective that needs coddling that's the stuff of Communism.
3:00 you may want to close your eyes and your ears if you value fiscal conservatism because I have bad news for you about the Trump administration even pre-pandemic...
3:23 PM - You are definitely a socialist Democrat are you would know how well President Trump was doing until the virus was dropped off here. Now if you want to see communism at work, start checking out the meeting in N.Y. in October with a panademic exercise https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201 or secret meeting in California with Pelosi and other Democrats with Soros.https://www.foxnews.com/politics/soros-pelosi-headline-hush-hush-resistance-conference-in-california and then Soros went to China in November to talk to the old China regime. He also owns bio-tech over in China.Just some of this makes me see how this virus got all over the country. There is a well planned and plotted mission by the Democrats, Soros, China, Gates, Fauci.
Normies is a term used by elite nerds to describe people who don’t live with mental illness. Thanks for butchering our culture.
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