The Republicans come to Milwaukee for four days of lies and fake sympathy
It was Thursday, June 27; the night of the debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. When it was over, the narrative and shock were all about the current President and his frail and unsteady performance. Secondary to it were ninety minutes of lies from the former President. Twenty-nine of them—one every three minutes. No one was shocked or surprised. We’ve seen this behavior for years.
It’s almost three weeks later. The Republicans are in Milwaukee for their national convention. They are going to nominate Donald Trump for President for the third time. They don’t care about those twenty-nine lies—or the thousands more of them throughout his presidency and continuing to this day. They are in Wisconsin to celebrate him, honor him and spread his word.
The events of this past weekend will only escalate what we are going to see this week. Trump has now become an even more sympathetic figure in the eyes of his supporters. You've seen the outrage towards Biden and the media for their words that they pretend to believe caused the assassination attempt on Saturday. Of course, there was nothing about Trump's incendiary language. And where was this outrage when Paul Pelosi was attacked? There were more jokes than sympathy, but you didn't hear any of those same jokes coming from Trump supporters this weekend.
Now it’s on to Milwaukee. Word on the street that getting shot has mellowed Donald Trump. His acceptance speech has been softened. He’ll be calling for the country to come together.
BULLSHIT!!!
It’s just more lies. It’s just more of the same.
Donald Trump and the Republicans have shown us who they are for the last eight years. Expect more for the next four days.
I’m afraid you’re right. About a year ago I was part of a survey testing Donald Trump’s possible appeal to the “other side.” I watched videos of him offering different types of messages than we have ever before seen from him. There had been some weather crisis (forget which but it was serious) to which he responded that he was sending his “love” like a concerned father.
We have allowed our political lives to devolve into another opportunity for marketing and sales tactics to take precedence over principle.
I don’t know how we’ll ever manage in the future. As my grandmother used to say, “Honey I’ve just about seen enough….”