Yeah. It is pretty amazing, and I think (hope) a lot of Americans are watching all this in the same way we might slow down to see a car wreck on the highway: curious but still grossed-out. My mother is a life-long Republican and she isn’t watching the convention, thinks Trump is a “childish buffoon”, and is disgusted that the GOP openly bragged about how they were going to thwart Obama’s every move. But she’s “old school.” The fact that Trump gets away with being so offensive and clueless and has so much damning baggage is a tell that the GOP has allowed itself to be strong-armed by angry, know-nothing numbskulls – this ain’t your mother’s GOP anymore. They’ve been cultivating this kind of horseshit for decades and now they’re going to have to lie in that bed of manure.
I heard a conservative claiming that “Trump is actually doing well in the polls”, and he cited how far ahead Dukakis was at this point, and yet still lost to Bush-1. But this ain’t 1988, and Trump has never been ahead of Hillary in the polls even for a day, in the same way Romney never edged ahead of Obama. The only difference this time around is the GOP has managed to roll back voting rights laws, so we may see riots at some polling places come November.
