What Went Down During President Trump’s Closing Speech At The RNC

Micah, that’s a well-known finding called “thermostatic response” — when public policy moves in one direction, the public reliably tacks the opposite way.

Dana White made an appeal to Americans “regardless of sexual orientation.” That remind me that Peter Thiel, the openly gay founder of PayPal, spoke at the 2016 Republican National Convention. In fact, Trump’s allies have touted him as the only president in American history to support same-sex marriage from his first day in office. As far as transgender Americans are concerned, he has moved to block them from serving in the U.S. military.

This second chart here, from friend of the site Philip Bump, is pretty amazing: