I have attended about a half-dozen national conventions, Republican and Democratic, and watched at least a dozen more. And I can say two things: 1) They have all generally bored me. 2) The 2024 Republican National Convention didn’t.
The RNC not only held my interest, it often moved me emotionally.
If you weren’t moved to tears by the families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan during our preventably lethal withdrawal, you are way more stoic than I am. If you weren’t deeply moved by the tribute former President Donald Trump and the audience paid to Corey Comperatore, the firefighter killed at the Trump rally when he threw his body on top of his wife and daughter to protect them, again, you’re made of tougher stuff than I am.
I was also very moved by the cheers every time Israel was mentioned. Nothing better represents moral differences between the two parties than their attitudes toward Israel. Indeed, it will be interesting to see whether Israel is mentioned in a positive manner even one time at the Democratic National Convention next month.
But both Trump and the Republican Party made one big mistake—a mistake I noted on my radio show during the convention and have pointed out for ...
