offered in contrast

[solarbird]

Given how… blessedly normal… the DNC is this year, I thought it might be good to revive a couple of stories and images from the Republican National Convention – particularly of the plans for mass deportation and concentration camps, the most disgracefully evil plan put forward by an American political party since World War II – to provide some contrast between that fest of fear and fascism and the Democratic Party’s nominating convention of an inclusive republic and small-d democratic governance.

I know, most people reading me don’t really need the reminder, but it might be useful to remind some of your zero-attention-span low-info-white-voter friends of exactly how nuts that was, in the context of a political convention that’s actually about improving the state of the republic.

There’s no particular order, here. It’s just… as it came to mind.

A Party of Precarious Manhood, Led by a Blithering Idiot

America will never be the same after Milwaukee’s tent revival for the cult of Donald Trump

Trump’s Massive Deportation Plan Echoes Concentration Camp History

A Searing Reminder That Trump Is Unwell

Plus, let’s not forget this “Odo, you’re better than this” moment:

or Grampa Angy ripping off his shirt for some reason, because sure, why not.

I mean, just because they’re dangerous and stupid doesn’t mean they aren’t also evil clowns.

76 days remain.

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