For a night without a lot of star power, there was a lot to chew on. I thought the speakers in the final hour were pretty good. Eric Trump gave perhaps the most rhetorically sophisticated speech of the RNC. Daniel Cameron is a rising star in the party who once again made the case that Black voters can be Republicans too (although his speech was probably geared more toward assuring white voters that the GOP isn't racist). And Melania Trump gave a speech with a lot of crossover appeal, although her apparent lack of comfort while speaking means it's unlikely to get a lot of airtime. However, the most striking feature of the night were the multiple norm violations, even Hatch Act violations. The cut-ins to Trump in the White House (pardoning a criminal justice activist, swearing in new citizens) explicitly used official government instruments for electoral gain, and that deserves plenty of criticism.