Curb Your Authoritarianism? The 2016 Conventional Wisdom Thread (Elections, Part 6)

Ivanka so far 10x better than Donald. THIS is the man she was describing?

So charming

He's a warm hearted guy who wants to throw us all in prison

God where is the aneurysm fairy when you need her

Jill Biden ‏@JillBidenVeep 11m11 minutes ago

My thoughts and prayers are with the fact checkers. #RNCinCLE

brb gonna check on Sullivan

Unemployed factory workers, I will fight to dig you better graves

what is even happening

cruz supporters apparently?

Code pink

Code pink again probably

ELLO CLEVELAND

Any other candidate would have said re the Code Pink supporter, "See? The First Amendment makes America great." Instead, he praises the police and resumes speech w/the phrase "I have no patience for..."

Speech read a lot better on the page

"Nobody knows the system better than me..."

*nervous laughter*

even Election night over this clown isn't gonna be fun. he and his base are gonna claim "vote suppression" after he gets demolished and start picketing on Washington claiming they counted Hillary votes twice in some precincts and they know this cos Trump has it on good authority!

where's code shoot-trump's-orange-face-off

There's a powerful speech in here somewhere, but Trump's delivery has been poor so far -- talking. at. half. speed. often with WEIRD accents.

Too hectoring, not funny. Hard to imagine casual viewers are going to be drawn in.

pence looking profoundly unmoved/uncomfortable in response to his "next vice-president" shout-out

man this whole speech is so alarming on so many levels

Kind of leaning on law and order a lot here. Is this really what moves people?

Trump has apparently forgotten what NYC was like in the 70s

Hillary Clinton is at best a mediocre politician but after this performance I'm sure Trump has no chance

jeez even NRO's tweets are making fun of his delivery and "law and order" crap

Hillarys twitter has been great tonight

Please save the people of Ferguson from ISIS!

i'm not watching so that's reassuring to hear xxxp to alfred

so few lines delivered for cheers, crowd seem to think they have to boo or be silent, cheers seem nervous and halting

https://vine.co/v/5W0mKPll5AW

Mona Charen @monacharenEPPC

Trump is older than I am, so he definitely saw the riots of the 60s. They were worse than now. Believe me. Believe me.
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jimgeraghty
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@jimgeraghty

Jeez, nobody reruns law and order over and over again like this besides TNT.
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John Fund Retweeted
Stuart Rothenberg @StuPolitics

Back to law and order. Didn't he already do this?

LG......B.......TQNOGOOD

lol nice reaction shot of Guiliani hysterically applauding and Peter King looking sad and sitting on his hands.

these people love israel more than anything else he said

and borders. They love borders.

Still think the cadence - "LG. BTQ." - the accents - "reGEEEM change" - and the half-volume parentheticals - "believe me", "no good", "think of this" - are weird, and likely go over badly.

Reminds me of the Jon Stewart speech at that rally where he thought maybe he'd try to be a politician. As soon as he loses the foil of responding to people/news, and the technique of speaking off the cuff, he's a different guy. And much worse on TV.

Melania's halting applause at the border solution thing...

Halt immigration from countries compromised by terrorism. So France then?

Amazed Medea Benjamin got in, that is crazy

I know I live in a bubble, but it's hard to imagine anyone outside of this stadium being moved by this unending focus on law and order, terrorism, violence, and illegal immigrants.

it's absurdly one-note

yeah you really have to be in a fox-news bubble where it's obvious to you and everyone you talk to that this handful of themes are the biggest, hugest, most widely-recognized crucial issues plaguing the country and driving all the problems. if you don't feel that way it's going to feel like he's kinda not talking about anything that matters, even if you are someone who agrees on some of these topics (?)

jesus he's less than 2/3 of the way through the thing

glad i didn't miss anything, saw a great Low-A ballgame in Coney

when's he going to get to the part where he tells us about how he'll restore law and order?

pssst, these trade deals aren't going anywhere

very quiet applause for "no more trade deals"

ooh, he can use the wall to keep companies from moving jobs out of the country, win-win!

Richard M. Nixon ‏@dick_nixon 6m6 minutes ago

You're concerned. I understand that. But I've beaten worse than this.

must be at least 30 or 40 minutes to go, wonder if the arena will empty out at all?

So far 0 policy proposals

AMERICA FIRST