It was a success in that it will have pleased the base and done some degree of outreach to others. It was like seeing Eva Peron in an extended manic episode running from balcony to balcony warning the descamisados to stay armed, the oligarchs are coming. They reduced the White House to a stage set for a political convention, which had never been done before. By tradition and long custom the two parties are political constructs that exist outside and apart from the peoples’ house. “Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.” You’ll miss that tribute when it’s fully gone.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 28, 2020 03:33 UTC