What Went Down On Night 1 Of The RNC

It is pretty amazing to hear the 1994 crime bill get criticized at a Republican convention. At the time, it was a genuinely bipartisan effort. Now, neither party wants anything to do with it.

I think Scott’s giving a really good speech. Personal story connected to actual old-school GOP bread-and-butter issues. Talks about the evolution of peoples’ views on race.

Scott says that it’s baseless to think that things were better in the 1860s or 1960s. I suspect most people would agree with him in the 1860s, but funnily enough, a lot of Republicans ahead of the 2016 election thought life had changed for the worst since the 1950s. In October 2016, Public Religion Research Institute found that 72 percent of Trump voters thought things had worsened while 70 percent of Clinton supporters thought things had improved.