''The purpose of a modern party convention, one of them at any rate, is
to have delegates return home full of enthusiasm and vigor for the
struggle ahead. Ideally, they’ll have been stirred by a soaring
closing-night acceptance speech from their anointed nominee, they’ll be
armed both with arguments and an inspirational vision to see them
through the fall, and they will know that any rifts opened up during the
preceding primary season have been duly healed. For a few weeks, at
least, they will bask in the afterglow of party comradeship, having been
reminded of the rightness of their cause and convinced of their chances
of victory.
Some of those who spent last week navigating the heavily-secured
streets of Cleveland for the Republican National Convention may well
feel that way. Trump supporters outnumbered those who had backed his
opponents and they liked what they heard. They reckon the nominee is
channeling a mood of fear and rage in the country that the national
media and the liberal elites might not like, but that is potent and
deeply felt. They believe this spirit of anxious fury is capable of
forging a “silent majority” that could carry Trump, like Richard Nixon
before him, to the White House.,''
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