At the Republican National Convention, Trump Uses White House Setting to Toxic Advantage

variety.com:

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThroughout the weeklong broadcast of the Republican National Convention, speakers argued that Donald Trump was not in fact the person we’d seen for nearly four years as our president and for longer as a presence on social media and in the national psyche — that he was gentle, loving, kind, generous.

The challenge Trump faced was to make it seem for an evening true; the challenge Democrats face now is that, for an evening terrifying to anyone who hopes for a Trump defeat in November, he could be seen as having sold it.Somehow and some way, Trump managed to stay so riveted to the TelePrompTer as to give his head a particular incline and the ending of his lines a trailing-off sensation, with the only.