1y ago

Anti-party in a ghost town: Trump's undead GOP holds an un-convention

www.salon.com

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Within the space of about three minutes on Wednesday night, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, Trump’s newly-anointed running mate, suggested that the Iraq invasion launched by a Republican administration in 2003 was a huge mistake (true), blamed it on Joe Biden (mostly false, with an asterisk) and then brandished his own patriotic credentials for enlisting in the Marine Corps in — hang on, let’s look it up — 2003 and serving for six months in, um, Iraq.
I was on the floor of the convention at that moment, inches away from Turning Point USA founder and Vance booster Charlie Kirk, and for a few seconds you could feel the bafflement spread through the crowd: So was Senator Hillbilly Elegy a true American hero for risking his life in a stupid war that was started by the Republican president before the one to whom he’s hitched his wagon, or was he, as his boss might put it, a “sucker,” not to mention a shameless hypocrite? How's the vegan barbecue, anyway?
Oofah.
Yes, it's a circlejerk for the party elites. It's not meant for the lowly voters.
- If you read the article I think the point they were making is that today's Republican party has no interest in connection to it's past or principles, or even to any kind of consistency or coherence.
They thought the opening act was bad, today Peter Thiel payed to have Hulk Hogan go on stage before the Trumps to psyche the crowd up.
And then Trump Jr, I think it was, claimed the opposition were all bought and paid for.
- claimed the opposition were all bought and paid for.
  Meanwhile, Elon just pledged to donate 1,000x the average American's annual salary to a trump PAC every month.