On the menu today, a deep dive in one big topic: our long, painful, violent summer of burning cities.
Campaigning While American Cities Burn
The second night of the Republican National Convention was . . . fine, probably not as strong as the first night, although we did get the surprises of President Trump signing a pardon and presiding over a White House naturalization ceremony. The use of the White House for convention programming runs afoul of the spirit of the Hatch Act, if not the law, and while the president and vice president are exempt, the secretary of Homeland Security is not. Lawyers will be arguing about this one for a while.
Beyond that, I get where Robert VerBruggen is coming from when he finds watching party conventions insufferable, as they are indeed infomercials: “Given our rising polarization, the political exhaustion of the past four outrage-soaked years, and ...
Episode 314: The Socialist...
