I walked from Detroit to the Cleveland conference to talk to my fellow midwesterners. The verdict: people simply don’t care about Melanias plagiarism when they’re worried about paying the mortgageFire! Clouds of teargas! Mass arrests! Armed black power militants facing off with assault rifle-wielding white supremacists! Unprepared and nervous police!This was what I was supposedly walking towards when I decided to wander on foot the 170 miles or so from my domestic in Detroit to the Republican national conference in Cleveland,where the GOP would be nominating Donald Trump as their party representative – one of the most divisive political candidates since Lincoln. Supporters seem desperate for something, anything, and differentContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com