The president and many of the Republicans who spoke at this week’s RNC detailed America’s major cities as drowning in violence, but placed blame elsewhere.
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump said America was a mess in 2016 and four years later, running for reelection as president, he has the same message: America is a mess.
In his speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination on the final night of the party’s convention Thursday, Trump described a country that, while overcoming some challenges, is still facing chaos and “mayhem” across its major cities. Republicans who spoke before Trump, both on Thursday night and in the days before, described “mobs” taking over cities and censoring Americans’ speech and law enforcement officers in constant danger. It’s the very thing Trump pledged to rid the country of four years ago when he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in Cleveland, promising the restoration of “law and order.”
“Nobody knows the system better than me,” he said then of America’s “rigged” politics, “which is why I alone can fix it.” Continue reading.