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The Nation is not a liberal-tilting magazine.
It is and has been for a long time the voice of the progressive wing of the Democrat Party. It is not too strong to say that it has been consistent in its hatred, or at least disdain, for Republicans for as long as I have been alive. Multiply that by a thousand when it comes to Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans.
So imagine my surprise when I saw The Nation, of all places, publishing a piece about the convention called “The Revenge of the Normies”, which is almost sympathetic to the attendees who have come together to both nominate and celebrate Donald J. Trump.
Yikes. I am living in an alternate universe where Slate and The Nation are praising the tone of MAGA Republicans and the Secret Service is the Keystone Cops.
It was just bad luck, I suppose, that the first Republican delegate I ran into here outside the Fiserve Forum was Susan Sweeney. Though her Abe Lincoln stovepipe hat promised a colorful character—and perhaps fodder for a MAGA caricature—Sweeney, a delegate from Chicago’s northern suburbs, told me she had come to the convention “to talk about the things that unite us as Americans, not the things that divide us.”
Every journalist wants color to add to their stories, and it is unsurprising that a writer from The Nation is expecting a flamboyantly attired Republican to harbor dark and divisive thoughts.
