The Republican convention’s first day was filled with sturm und drang, warnings and fear, hysteria and demagoguery. And what were they so concerned about? Sadly, most of the media is treating Trump and the weird show of supplicants and family members last night, as if he were some sort of aberration. In reality, Donald Trump is the logical endpoint of the Republican Party that started, in the Nixon and Reagan years, embracing racialized fear, irrational hatred, and a strategy of pitting Americans against each other.

- Kris Kobach Uses Border Wall Group to Fund Senate Bid 

- So why wasn’t he busted, too? Bannon bust has the smell of a Roger Stone special: He had to take down Bannon, the key witness in his trial.

Investigative Journalist, Greg Palast explains.

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