Postscripts from the Edge: One for the History Books

If your word in your bond, according to Michelle Obama and Melania Trump, then why would Donald Trump believe that pulling out of NATO and trying to stiff our allies is a good idea?

The final days of the convention were marked with reporters using words like chaos and calamity on the Convention Floor with Ted Cruz refusing to endorse Trump and the less than stellar line-up of speakers reigning fire and brimstone down upon the throng.

And the topping on the cake was, of course, the man himself. Setting records for the longest Acceptance speech in modern Convention history, Trump rang out his litany of doom and gloom for 75 minutes. Preceding him was a short musical interlude (Here Comes the Sun-which the Beatles estate was outraged about in connection with Trump!), and his daughter Ivanka admitting that she wasn’t really a Republican, and then going through a litany of what sounded like some of Hillary’s best proposals, none of which would ever be adopted by the Republican Party.

One of the best moments was post-speech when one of the GOP Pundits said, “Gee, I didn’t realize that we lived in Gotham City”, referring to the many dark moments depicted in Trump’s version of America. Former Republican Committee Chairman Michael Steele admitted that he needed to look up the word “Dystopian” which most used to describe the America that Trump would like to preside over. (By the way, Dystopia means: an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian one).

And of course, Bernie Sanders got in the act by tweeting the phrase that Trump delivered, “I alone can fix it” and posing the musical question: Is Trump running for President or Dictator? All in all, it sets quite a low bar for the Democrats to hurdle over to make their Convention one for the ages.

The Republican Convention was memorable, all right. Memorable in that most Republicans would like to wake up and think this was just some sort of bad dream…sort of like the device used by the Dallas TV series when they wanted to get out of a sticky and tenuous situation they created for themselves.

Unfortunately, there are no do-overs in the case of the nomination of Donald J Trump. It’s in the history books now, and will be duly recorded as the Train Wreck of a Convention that many had predicted.

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