The RNC weaponized exhaustion
I'll say; they've beat us all down.
The RNC weaponized exhaustion
The sheer volume of lies and illegal behavior from Trump and the Republicans is what allowed them to get away with it.
By Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchampzack@vox.com Aug 28, 2020, 12:30pm EDT
The most consistent theme of Donald Trump’s Republican National Convention wasn’t that Joe Biden was a puppet for radicals. It wasn’t even that rioters and looters are coming to your home and only Trump can protect you from the radical left.
The clear theme of the RNC was a flagrant and brutal disregard for the truth.
The first night of the RNC featured more false and misleading claims than all four nights of the DNC put together, according to a CNN fact-check. The second night starred an anti-abortion activist whose tale about the horrors of Planned Parenthood had been exposed as a fraud more than 10 years ago. On the third night, Vice President Mike Pence suggested that the murder of a police officer by a far-right extremist was a crime committed by left-wing rioters. It was all capped off by President Trump’s Thursday night speech, a farrago of falsehoods that even veteran Trump fact-checkers found stunning.
“Basically everything Trump says about Biden’s proposals is false,” the Washington Post’s Philip Bump writes. In a tour-de-force segment, CNN’s Daniel Dale spent three minutes debunking the speech at a rapid clip — and still didn’t cover all the lies:
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Writing honestly about the RNC requires centering the dishonesty. But adequately describing the sheer breadth and brazenness of the lying that was on display these past four days would take volumes. And after a certain point, the whole thing reaches diminishing returns: Some depressing political science research suggests that pointing out when Trump is lying doesn’t actually change the way voters feel about him.
And that’s the dark brilliance of the RNC, and maybe the entire Trump presidency. If you just lie and break legal rules frequently enough and brazenly enough, the sheer volume of misconduct will overwhelm the systems that are designed to check them.
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Read Michael McFaul’s Twitter thread from yesterday.
He lays it all out. Putin is pulling all the strings.
and get their heads rotating like old 78rpm vinyl records.
Such as:
-- The Orange Traitor wants to take manufacturing of American products out of China and hand it over to the Russians. There will never be American manufacturing jobs again.
-- Melania is a Russian agent assigned to make sure he carries out Putin's orders.
-- Barron is actually Putin's son.
-- The planned Trump Hotel in Moscow will be the headquarters for an international ring of sex traffickers, as well as the biggest brothel in the world.
-- COVID-19 is part of a Russian plot to depopulate the United States. The Orange Traitor opposes the use of masks because he is carrying out Putin's orders.
--Trump and his children have been looting the U.S. Treasury and sending the money to Russia through secret channels.
-- Donald Jr. is a pedophile.
-- Trump wants to destroy Obamacare, Medicare and Medicaid in order to create a new phony healthcare system with the goal of injecting microchips into all Americans.
-- The American education system is being ruined in order to make room for a new curriculum of Russian language instruction.
Take your pick or add your own
