The Republican National Convention was a strange high for the Grand Old Party. The president had just (barely) survived an assassination attempt, Democrats’ lawfare had collapsed in on itself, and the incumbent was facing a messy public coup. There was talk about winning New Jersey. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan’s historic landslides were ready for a sequel.
The optimism was so foreign to conservatives that most knew the shoe was going to drop. But still, when it finally dropped, in an eminently predictable fashion, those same conservatives plunged into despair. “How could the polls be tightening?” “How could corporate media bury a deadly assassination after just a week?” “Can they actually gaslight us all into thinking Kamala Harris is super cool? That she’s super
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