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Republican National Convention 2020
August 31, 2020
Bruce Bartlett
Trump’s Republican Party Is Erasing Reagan’s Memory
His demand for total idolatry requires the GOP rank and file to banish the 40th president from their history.
August 28, 2020
Matt Ford
The Violent Delights of the Trumpian Right
In the end, it was always going to be about blood and soil and gun-toting vigilantes.
August 28, 2020
Timothy Noah
Larry Kudlow’s Economic Hallucinations
Trump’s chief economic adviser claims that stagnation, recession, and pessimism are all in the past. The numbers prove otherwise.
August 28, 2020
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump Is Rooting for Chaos
A rambling convention speech underlined the core of his campaign: He needs violence and destruction to win reelection.
August 27, 2020
Walter Shapiro
Mike Pence Is a Parody of a Politician
He praised his Dear Leader’s reign, while also insisting that America needed to be saved yet again.
August 27, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Democrats Have Failed Urban Black Americans
The Republican critique of misrule in American cities has some merit, and it’s not clear that Joe Biden’s party is prepared to meet the need.
August 27, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Real, Paranoid Housewives of the Republican Convention
Patricia McCloskey and Kimberly Guilfoyle are a new twist on a dangerous lineage of conservative women.
August 27, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Republican National Convention’s War on Reality
Up is down, the coronavirus pandemic is over, and Donald Trump is normal.
August 26, 2020
Libby Watson
The Republican Solution to Shuttered Rural Hospitals: Zoom Calls
Small-ball innovations like telemedicine expansion can’t patch a system that’s set up to fail.
August 26, 2020
Walter Shapiro
The Surprising Boredom of Trump’s Circus Show
If the Republican convention were a TV series, it would be canceled mid-season.
August 26, 2020
Nick Martin
The Sad Spectacle of Talking About Native Rights at Trump’s Racist Circus
Navajo Nation Vice President Myron Lizer kept a straight face, but there is no Native case for the president.
August 25, 2020
Jo Livingstone
How
Boys State
Explains Trump’s Appeal
The documentary about a political boot camp is a depressingly accurate microcosm of the American electoral circus.
August 25, 2020
Matt Ford
Donald Trump Declares Total War on the Civil Service
The Republican National Convention is a testament to the president’s effort to permanently recast the executive branch in his own warped image.
August 25, 2020
Adam Weinstein
Republicans Invite America to Play the “Dear Leader” Lottery
The RNC opened with two themes: Existence is under attack from radical Democrats, and adoring Donald Trump is the only hope.
August 24, 2020
Libby Watson
Republican Voters Embrace Trump’s Cult of Destruction
A majority of the president’s base believes the coronavirus death toll is acceptable. What more needs to be said at this week’s convention?
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