7 Takeaways from the RNC: And the Only One You Really Need to Know

7 Takeaways from the RNC: And the Only One You Really Need to Know July 22, 2016

I tried not to watch. I poured myself a glass of wine and cranked up Netflix on my laptop and tried to keep my heart rate in a normal, resting range.

But with my husband watching in the next room, I kept hearing bits and pieces. Mostly the loud, hysterical “BOOs” that seemed to be the pervading sentiment of the evening. That’s pretty much the gist, I thought. Who needs to watch?

I managed to stay away until

“DID I JUST HEAR HIM SAY HE WILL NOT TOLERATE INJUSTICE??” I yell to my spouse.

“Yep,” says unsurprised voice in the next room. “OOH, hey, I think people are protesting!”

And with that–I’m in the room.

From the parts I watched, what I learned from the media post-mort, and what I gleaned from the Twitter-sphere, here are the key points DT made last night. But the last one is the only one that you really need to know, if you are still one of those mythical undecideds out there. It goes like this:

 

1: Trump will not stand for injustice. Unless you happen to be protesting an injustice voiced in his own policies; in which case you will be forcibly removed from the (public) gathering.

2: Hillary = bad. Obama = bad. This relentless mantra far overshadowed any articulate policy or plan.

3: Trump will PROTECT THE LGBT COMMUNITY from terrorists, and possibly some other vaguely threatening entities…but not from Republican Congress.

4: Trump still knows “All the best words,” because dude can talk FOREVAH. Longest Presidential acceptance speech in recent memory. Possibly ever, but if anyone ever talked longer than that, nobody can remember because they slept through the last half.

5: TRUMP ALONE can fix it. Which I guess is a good thing because he’s made it clear that he has no intentions of working with anyone else. Whether from the other side of the aisle or the other side of the ocean.

6: The wall is going to be epic. I’m still fuzzy on the construction details and the payment plan, but it will be YUGE and it will solve all of our problems.

7. Trump is for “all the children who dream of a future.” Unless they are brown. Or immigrants. Or girls. Or…

And finally: the most telling moment of the night came, not from Trump himself, but from his buddy David Duke. Yes, DD as in the KKK guy. Trump has been under fire this whole campaign for not rejecting Duke’s endorsement very convincingly. And last night, his bro Tweeted this effusive praise:

“Great Trump Speech, America First! Stop Wars! Defeat the Corrupt elites! Protect our Borders!, Fair Trade! Couldn’t have said it better!”

So, there you have it. I could make a longer list, but this one kind of trumps all the other stuff anyway. The official Republican nominee for the Presidency has the complete and effusive support of the white supremacist fringe. If that’s not a call to “vote your conscience,” I don’t know what is. But I guess it’s true what our mothers always told us: who your friends are says a lot about you.


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