So this is what it feels like, the presidential hopeful must be telling himself, to be admired, praised and respected, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
So this is what it feels like, the presidential hopeful must be telling himself, to be admired, praised and respectedin Milwaukee suggest that the mood of the room isn’t merely energised but giddy. Some of us know that feeling; the sense of jubilation that comes after suffering a near-death experience that the Republicans and their leader are at present enjoying.
Quite apart from surviving Saturday’s bullet, of course, Trump has a lot to be happy about. On Monday, Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee,against him for removing classified material from the White House and keeping it at his home in Mar-a-Lago. He is ahead in the polls in all seven swing states. I also suspect that Trump is enjoying the unprecedented novelty of occupying the moral high ground.
Which brings us to Vance, the junior senator for Ohio, and a recent convert both to Trumpism and hardline Catholicism. I can’t look at Vance without recalling, incredulously, a time in the recent past when the former Republican house speaker Paul Ryan was deemed the incarnation of– Ryan wanted to privatise Medicare and reduce the top rate of tax to 25%, nursery slope stuff by today’s standards – or poor old Mike Pence, rocking a facelift even worse than Joe Biden’s.How innocent we were.
And so to the convention itself, which serves as a reminder that, whatever else their shortcomings, Republicans do put on a better show than the Democrats. To wit: Rudy Giuliani staggered sideways into a folding chair; Amber Rose, the model and TV personality, opened as a.and Boris Johnson, both of whom engaged in a doomed effort to get someone, anyone, to show up to their events.
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