These bandages werent the bright white of the original they were printed with the American flag.
The text on the reverse side read: July 13, 2024.
We ALL Dodged the Bullet.
Former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at the Republican National Convention on July 18 in Milwaukee.Win McNamee/Getty Images
The Trump candidacy poses a grave threat to the democratic order.
The GOP nominees calls for unity sounded, in reality, a lot like a demand for submission.
The crowd chuckled and wood.
They asked, with utter disbelief: Is this normal in America?
Is it always like this?
To reach the interior was at once to set foot into a sanctuary of privilege.
But the scene that unfolded for visitors also gave the vibes of a caged MAGA asylum.
The security presence in the wake of the attempt on Trumps life was enough to shock and awe.
The merch hawked at the convention was as garish as it was cultish.
Seemingly everything inside the security zone was branded with the name of the leader of this cult of personality.
The old-timey bus moving elderly attendees across the security zone?
A whole section of the arena was rebranded the Trump Terrace.
Only MAGA grandees had access to the suite level at the arena, reached by a devoted escalator.
But by mistake he took the neighboring escalator to the nosebleeds.
The upper crust of the convention partied at exclusive events.
The fundamentalist currents sloshing through the convention were hard to square with the actual gospels.
The convention week also offered a bizarre form of C- and D-list celebrity watching.
Is that David Brooks riding down the escalator?
Look: Its Russell Brand in the arena stairwell.
Oh, thats Bret Bair in full makeup on a golf cart.
Who is at the center of that entourage rushing to the elevator?
Hey there Judy Woodruff.
Dear God, its Fabio!
He had a point.
It was, indeed, the worst of times.
