Opinion: Trump’s convention was repulsive and dishonest. I fear it was also effective.
additional deaths were reported) and in praising the president’s supposedly effective handling of a virus whose danger he diminished and whose spread he permitted to flourish.
Trump, of course, outdoes all the rest. “To save as many lives as possible, we are focusing on the science, the facts and the data,” he proclaimed Thursday night — this on a day when his administration was forced toAnd then there was the sliming of Biden. “The hard truth is, you won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America,” Vice President Pence warned on Wednesday — and then Trump took it up a notch.
Carnage Trump, seizing on “the rioting, looting, arson and violence we have seen in Democrat-run cities,” ignores the actual damage that actual Trump has wrought and invokes imaginary damage that Biden and his crowd would bring.If this line of argument, which elides the police actions that sparked such protests, might not sit so well with Black men, consistency has never been Trump’s strong point. The clear goal is to rile up the GOP base and scare the wits out of those suburban women.
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