What the hell did the GOP think they were doing last night? Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum joined Molly-Jong Fast and Rick Wilson on a special edition of The New Abnormal to talk about the second night of the Republican National Convention and he just couldn’t work out what was going on.
This is the best way to describe it: Stephen Harper, the former prime minister of Canada, used to have a sign up on all four walls of his campaign war room, Frum explains: “And the sign said, ‘Why are you saying this?’”
While the Democrats realized they needed to create lots of short video segments that would be shared online, Frum compares the RNC disaster as a low-rent version of the Tucker Carlson show on Fox News. “He’s a professionally competent white supremacist with volume controls on the input device that matches the volume output,” he says.
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Molly was also unimpressed by Melania’s “dictator chic” and her very long speech. “In the end she was just like this weird alien trying to mimic a human,” she says.
Amid the cavalcade of nepotism, Molly also thought Tiffany Trump’s performance was instructive. “There’s always been a liberal fantasy that Tiffany is not as evil as the rest of the adult children. I think tonight, that fantasy has been put to bed,” she says.
The sight of former Florida Attorney General (and registered foreign agent) Pam Bondi prompted Rick to issue a warning that Bondi has been working with Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon on concocting “Hillary’s emails 2.0”—some kind of opposition research attack on the Bidens.
“Tonight was a preview of the October surprise,” he says.
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