Eight Years Ago at the RNC
Molly Crabapple has posted drawings from her reporting on Trump’s coronation by the Republican Party in 2016, and they’re quite something. My immediate point of reference is Ralph Steadman’s grotesqueries, and I mean that as the best compliment.
It’s eight years later, and we’re in the midst of another coronation. Again, the country lurches inevitably towards a Trump presidency, the path greased by a craven Democratic Party that’s openly contemptuous of its base, and by a narcissistic, unelectable candidate who believes the office is theirs by divine right. It’s all stupider, uglier, and pettier. Such is the nature of reboots. It’s all about to get a lot more nasty, too, as this time, Trump has a competent machine behind him.
