The same spirit was on display Monday at an “America First Unity Rally” on the banks of the Cuyahoga, an event hosted by, among others, Citizens for Trump, Tea Partiers for Trump, Bikers for Trump, Christians for Trump, Women United for Trump, Vets for Trump, Millennials for Trump, Truckers for Trump … you get the idea. “Those officers were out there securing a Black Lives Matter protest.”He paused. Barely a week after five police officers were shot dead in Dallas at a Black Lives Matter march, Cleveland was duty-bound to follow Ohio’s open-carry statute. Mailer missed it by little: instead of an island we have a wall, the wall that’s as close to a defining principle as the Trump campaign has. A broadening beyond the psychic island, the insane castle, the encircling wall of the Wasp that Norman Mailer wrote about nearly a half-century ago.

Source: The Guardian July 22, 2016 11:00 UTC