This thing is starting to wrap up, finally!
Not as interesting as his usual ad-libbing boastful person. But … this was much darker, much uglier. There was little to laugh at. Less to mock. His ego was subdued by his speechwriter, which must’ve been quite the feat in itself, but still, holy shit this was nasty.
We saw every conservative trope, overtly and proudly paraded. Brown people are coming to kill your daughters! Death! Destruction! The stuff about “raising taxes” seemed quite quaint, in comparison.
So this is the new Republican Party. Zombie Reagan is good and buried, his “Morning in America” in the dumpster.
But as ugly as this is, it’s also refreshing. Because Republicans are no longer pretending to be something that they are not. This is it, modern conservatism, raw and uncensored. And despite all the lies and dishonesty we heard tonight, it made this a genuinely honest speech.