In assessing the Republican national convention, liberal columnists poured forth a torrent of bile and scorn. Take, for instance, the naturalization ceremony Trump conducted in the White House. (After Trump, the names most frequently invoked at the convention were God and Lincoln.) Mitchell accepted the rebuke, but, to her credit, she pressed Brown on why Trump continues to have such a hold on working-class white people in the Midwest. The Democrats, said Brown, must do a better job of exposing Trump’s “phony populism”.

Source: The Guardian August 29, 2020 10:18 UTC