Night One Of Republican National Convention Unleashed Some Deeply Insane, Disturbing Psychosis

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Night One Of Republican National Convention Unleashed Some Deeply Insane, Disturbing Psychosis



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Still processing Night One of the Republican National Convention in the Cleve? The shrieking and the wailing? The general unhingedness? The repetition of lies that were debunked (and then repeated, naturally) by the Republican members of the House? The embrace of blood and war and death and torture and shitcanning the Geneva Convention? The normalization of one party calling for its opponent to be imprisoned before the election? Let’s start with that last one, because while “Melania Trump stole Michelle Obama’s bicycle” will become the number one story from “Keep America Safe Again Night” (and it’s a fun story!), it really wouldn’t do to elide all the actual psychosis we witnessed, together, last night.


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Patricia Smith will be forever known as “Benghazi Mom.” She wept and screamed. The crowd wept with her. After four years her pain has not abated enough to speak of her son without shrieking. It was heartbreaking. And it was obscene. It’s not inherently wrong to put someone grieving on the stage — I believe the DNC has a few Black Lives Matter moms ready to deploy. But let’s speak plainly, as we declined to do last night, because we don’t like to call grieving people crazy: Pat Smith was insane. She was insane with her grief. She is in no position to be trotted out for someone’s poll numbers. The exploitation was shocking.

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What have they told Pat Smith? Who has been calling her up for the past four years, holding her hand and stoking her rage at Clinton’s evil machinations in pulling the Embassy security so Pat Smith’s son could die? Why is the Right so insistent that “a video” is the greatest lie that’s ever been told? The New York Times found the Benghazi attack was spurred (in part) by the anti-Mohammed video Innocence of Muslims. Why would saying so become a reason Hillary Clinton should serve her country from jail? (The answer to that last one is easy: it must not have been the anti-Islam video, because then their crazy pastors and others might bear some sort of culpability. Offense offense offense.) Most importantly, no security had been pulled from the building. Who told Pat Smith that? What kind of person whispered that in the ear of a heartstricken mother? Who DOES that?

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There were other terrible parts of the proceedings last night: the lineup of speakers suggesting that somehow only Mexican nationals kill people in drunk driving collisions; a man, Marcus Luttrell, who seemed to be suffering a breakdown from PTSD — or, it’s certainly possible, something more powdery — right there on the screen.

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I’m still processing it all. I am disquieted. And we get to do it tonight all over again.

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