To turn Trump into a president worthy of a 2nd term, speakers are conjuring an entirely diff person

[Demovictory9]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/opinion/trump-melania-rnc.html

The Epic Shamelessness of the Republican Convention
Norms are for chumps, not for Trumps.

Conventions lie. Or at least they tell extravagant fibs. That’s how they transform their nominees from mere mortals to near messiahs. That’s how they whip up the faithful and woo the agnostics.

But the Republican convention is going well beyond that. It’s less a feat of pretty storytelling than an act of pure derangement.

To turn Donald Trump into a president worthy of a second term, speakers are conjuring an entirely different person in his place. I can tell that Trump is the man they’re talking about, because he keeps popping up amid all the monumental imagery. (Did Leni Riefenstahl consult via séance?)

But I otherwise don’t recognize their version of Trump. Their Trump brims with empathy. Their Trump burns with passion to improve the lives of ordinary Americans. Their Trump heroically spared the country from the worst ravages of Covid-19, which is surely news to the relatives and friends of more than 175,000 Americans (and counting) who have died from it.


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To recast Trump’s record on the coronavirus as a triumph isn’t revisionist history. It’s science fiction. It’s historical erasure: of all the times that he said or suggested that the virus was some hoax; of all the times that he or his enablers charged Democrats with hyping its threat just to hurt him; of “it is what it is”; of his ruminations about the potentially curative ingestion of bleach; of briefing after briefing in which he crowed about his ratings and bellyached about his critics, caroming from self-love to self-pity and back again.

Me, me, me, me. And the speakers at this convention dare to praise his outward focus, generosity of spirit, compassion and tenderness? They are standing — no, grandstanding — at the confluence of audacity and absurdity.

[smirkymonkey]

1. K&R

They are all shameless liars. It's sickening.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Reminiscent of Berlin issuing photos of Hitler with little children and his dog.

Humanizing banality and evil.

[dalton99a]

5. .

[Laelth]

3. I don't recognize the "Donald" being described at the RNC.

Perhaps they’re talking about Ronald McDonald. That I might believe.

-Laelth

[dalton99a]

4. It is a fucking lie fest

[eppur_se_muova]

6. The RNC is an intelligence test.

If you vote for 45, you fail.