What Went Down On Night 3 Of The RNC

Pretty bold choice to give a former Acting Director of National Intelligence, with his foreign-policy-centric speech, several minutes of prime time given that Americans rarely vote on foreign policy.

There’s a real cognitive dissonance here. If you were an alien getting only this broadcast beamed to your spaceship, you would never guess that America is currently dealing with a deadly viral pandemic, mass protests in response to police shootings, a 17-year-old allegedly opening fire on protestors and multiple natural disasters, including wildfires and an impending hurricane.

This is a favorite talking point for Republicans — during the Civil War and Reconstruction, the GOP led the charge to pass the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. It’s often accompanied by blasting Democrats as the party that historically backed white supremacy, which is absolutely true, especially in the South. However, all this overlooks the movement of conservative whites into the Republican Party in the latter half of the 20th century, while the Democratic Party increasingly embraced more liberal views on race.