Perspectives: The 2020 Republican National Convention Begins
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From the Left
The GOP convention will be no summer of loveThe Republican Party’s task this week will be to turn Joe Biden into something he’s not and transform President Trump’s failures into successes.
If a political consultants’ Olympics gave marks for degrees of difficulty, this event would set a record. No wonder several Republican senators are taking a pass on the whole thing.
But Democrats are nonetheless wary about what will come their way.
The 2016 Trump Convention was a crude production, lacking in star power and uplift. A lot of big-time Republicans also stayed away. Yet it turned out...
From the Center
At The Republican National Convention, All Eyes Will Be On Trump’s Economic RecordAs the Republican Convention opens I expect President Trump will make the case he is best positioned to end the recession. According to Yale professor Ray Fair’s predictive voting model, the incumbent party usually wins if the economy does better in the year of the election. Unfortunately for the Republican party, Trump may have sunk his reelection because he ignored advice from professional economists.
Trump ignored economists who advised him that corporate tax cuts would not be enough to induce investment or induce firms to raise pay. Trump ignored economists’...
From the Right
Republican convention will put this uplifting story front and centerIf there is one thing that Hollywood elites and the privileged politicians in the Democrat Party have both mastered, it is the art of the fictional narrative. What we saw last week at the Democratic National Convention was just that – a four-day flashy spectacle with no real substance and an entirely unrealistic portrayal of real America.
It felt less like a political convention and more like a Hollywood awards show: out-of-touch, boring and filled with actors heaping praise on one another. Cue the cutoff music.
At this week’s Republican National...
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