Here's the thing about political conventions: Apart from their actual purpose, they are ridiculous exercises in excess and what we now call identity signaling. The crowd in Milwaukee, as was the crowd in Miami in 1972, relentlessly white.
The Truscott Chronicles
Whatever happens over the next few days, Democrats will have to unify and get down to the business of beating Donald Trump and the pool boy he has chosen as his running mate.
If you have black or brown skin, or you are attracted to your own sex, or you speak with an accent, or you have a womb in your body, you should be very, very worried. This Supreme Court is out to make the “Handmaid’s Tale” look like it describes a time of moderation and equality.
Whatever the public reaction turns out to be, the Republican Party will try to use the attempt on Trump’s life to turn him into a martyr and a hero. It’s kind of a hollow mission, but Republicans will do it anyway.
There is something deeply wrong with America right now. Trump was a victim today, but we are all the victims of the political violence that has proliferated in rhetoric and now, reality.
Democrats have got to stop the internecine warfare about who is going to be at the top of the ticket and start thinking about the actual warfare that will break out if Trump wins.
As out of control as things may seem now, they could be worse. The Republican Party stands as the best example we have of how worse things could be.
We are going to be studying what went wrong at the “newspaper of record” in its coverage of this election for a long time. This so-called editorial’s so-called criticism of Donald Trump will be a great place to start.
Who’s the scandal here? The man all the pundits thought should pull out of the race ten minutes into the debate on June 27? Or the convicted felon whom practically none of the pundits have called on to retire his candidacy.
To believe all the bullshit being cranked out by Trump and the Republicans, to believe they are all-powerful, to believe a Republican victory in November is inevitable, you’d have to believe that the Delaware River is running backwards. It’s not.
The simple fact of the matter is that Donald Trump is Project 2025, and Project 2025 is him. More than 200 former Trump administration officials have contributed ideas and work on the project.
Democrats have six weeks until the convention to dismiss their circular firing squad and get on with the business of making that convention about beating Donald Trump, not defending Joe Biden.
They can pass all the laws they want, but they’re not going to erase the fact that slaves built Monticello, slaves built the United States Capitol, slaves built the White House, and slaves built practically every capitol building in every southern state.
If it sounds like a fascist conspiracy, it is. Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. With the Dobbs decision and this week’s move to grant Trump immunity, this Supreme Court is mid-stride on its way to bringing about the end of our democracy.
Among other things, John Roberts and the rest of the radicals on the Supreme Court just issued a decision that would make things like shooting peaceful demonstrators or arresting journalists legal as an “official act” by the president.
Democrats should take a page out of the Republican playbook. They don’t care if Trump’s a felon and a liar and an out-of-control lunatic who makes up weird shit and spews it out of his mouth like a firehose—sharks and electric boats, anyone?