MaIlwaukee, Wisconsin — but it didn’t last long. Less than 50 hours after former President Donald Trump narrowly avoided a sniper’s bullet to the head, the promise to stay quiet was broken. The mainstream media couldn’t stay quiet while they held their breath, and for anchors and pundits who had built careers on hating Trump, the end of the hyperbole felt like both.
We’ve seen these little pauses before. Sometimes, after a big, unexpected event like Trump’s victory in 2016, there’s a brief respite. Thoughtful reporters consider what this means for their country and how it relates to their previous assumptions. They think about where their role went wrong, they do a bit of introspection. Then a few of their friends hop on Twitter or X and start badmouthing each other, and everyone remembers and gets back on track. The moment is over, and nothing has changed.
We are just days away from the promise to lower the temperature in the country, and I spoke to dozens of people at the convention, but this time nobody believed it.
The morning after President Trump announced Senator J.D. Vance’s resignation Sen. Joe Scarborough (R-Ohio), as a vice presidential candidate, threatened on television to quit if his bosses pulled him off the air again.
NBC executives reportedly lied about airing the newscast on Monday morning, fearing that Scarborough’s guest would say something crazy about the assassination attempt. That afternoon, as I walked through the tight security surrounding the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, I heard an MSNBC commentator on TV claim that Vance would create “a blueprint for entrenching white minority rule for decades to come.”
Naive but well-meaning people will point out that Vance’s wife and two children are Indian-American. They don’t realize that this is irrelevant to the kind of pundits who say things like this three days after a murder at a Trump rally. In the end, the establishment’s executives were right about the lewd customers. They’re just not in charge of the establishment.
And that wasn’t all: As soon as that “Blueprint” guest was off screen, host Nicolle Wallace turned to her studio guest and suggested that Vance wanted women in abusive marriages because he had recently criticized the ease with which divorces could be obtained.
The night before, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said on the same network that Vance “just believes we’ll be better off if we put one man in charge, disenfranchise the rest of us, put men back in charge and create this country with a new mantle of Christian nationalism.”
“He was also chosen because he will help reverse the nation’s shift away from democratic norms and toward a white, patriarchal and Christian dominated nation,” Murphy continued.
“They want to deny you your freedom to vote,” President Joe Biden told an audience at the NAACP national convention on Tuesday night, before adding in a scathing remark: “They want to prosecute their political opponents.”
And we
the 2nd day Months have passed since Trump’s nomination, we’re still in the same week that Trump took a bullet to the ear that missed his brain by millimeters, and we’re days away from his promise to turn down the heat in the country.
The problem was, they’d spoken to dozens of people at the convention, and this time nobody believed them.
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Monday was a good night for a Republican realignment that many thought had failed after eight years, and it resulted in just two senators who are true allies. Vance was elected vice president, and a truckers union representative spoke at the Republican National Convention. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) wrote:
Suffice it to say, Teamsters Chairman Sean O’Brien’s speech at the Republican National Convention on Monday night was a shock. Commentators couldn’t believe he was there. Many of the delegates I couldn’t believe how much they agreed with him. Several representatives said to me, “That guy makes so much sense.”
… Republican elites may have sold out to big business over the past few years, but their voters never did. From Missouri to Ohio to Florida, the states where Republicans compete and win are home to millions of workers who support the Republican Party. Many of them belong to unions or have friends or family who are. They understand that unions are a vital part of the fabric of a nation that depends on workers.
