Long before 2020, there were too many speeches at political conventions and four nights was too long. Three would have sufficed, two might have been better. But when thousands of delegates, politicians, lobbyists, journalists, and assorted activists mingled freely — sans face masks — at the quadrennial nominating soirees, at least there was a social factor, along with the possibility for mishap, even scandal. Not this year.
The exigencies of this summer’s pandemic lockdown stripped away the pretense. Without balloon drops, mini-dramas and after-hours parties, anyone could see that modern…
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GOP 2020: The Good, the Bad and the Unseemly
