GOP convention descended into deception, delusion, and detesting

The party of Lincoln has become the party of lying.

We’ve now heard all of the speeches and hateful rhetoric from the Republican National Convention, including the acceptance speech from Hair Hitler himself. The Orange Menace is trying to establish himself as a national savior. We heard enough over four days to solidify the image of a political party bereft of ideas and bent on nothing but fear and hate.

The purpose of the four-day Trump-a-ganza was not to win over independent voters. It was to drive the red-meat stalwarts into a frenzy and try to further lower the approval ratings for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton—the 2016 equivalent of Swift-boating. On the first count, it succeeded, at least among the faithful Trumpeters—on the second, well, we’ll have to wait for new polls. On the purpose of gaining new support for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump? Probably not so much.

But hate? Hate against Hillary spewed forth like vomit at a fraternity kegger. No lie was too brazen, no insult too demeaning. No doubt fact checkers across America fainted from exhaustion (the Clinton campaign compiled a list of 67 lies debunked by independent fact checkers in just the first two days of the Trump-fest).

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