The most striking thing about walking the floor of the Republican National Convention (RNC) is seeing just how much this is Donald Trump’s party.
You can read about how that’s the case, you can listen to pundits say it — but to see it up close is something different. There is no ideology the 56,000 people here subscribe to, they don’t even describe themselves as conservatives.
They are “patriots,” they tell me at length — and they are convinced Donald Trump is the sole politician who is willing to “fight” for them. That’s the exact language they use over and over again when you ask why they’re at the RNC; why they support Trump — he is the guy who will “fight for us,” is what they tell me over and over again.
Our media reserves its adulation for Justin Trudeau because President Trump is icky and his followers are ickier.
