The Democrats have done an exceptional job of making lemonade out of lemons, creating a slick and effective media spectacle in lieu of a standard, in-person nominating convention.<\/p>\n
The Republicans will not do anywhere near as well as the Democrats have done, for the simple reason that their inability to acknowledge obvious facts (about COVID-19) prevented them from being able to prepare for a virtual convention as far in advance as the Democrats did.<\/p>\n
In fact, key GOP’ers are doubtless starting to scramble like mad, now that they are realizing how badly their plans for next week’s convention fail to leverage opportunities as well as the Democrats’ plans have. It probably won’t much matter; at this stage, it’s too little, too late. To the degree that the Republicans change their plans, it will make things come off as hasty and ill-prepared.<\/p>\n
\u201cFascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.\u201d \u2014 Umberto Eco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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