He would sooner renounce his championship. LeBron James will not be making an appearance at this convention. He just won the city its first major sports championship in more than a half-century with the Cleveland Cavaliers’ recent NBA title. You know who would be elected mayor of that city tomorrow were he to run? LeBron James, that’s who. Future civilizations will point to this as the moment when the American experiment called democracy descended to its nadir.Ĭonsider that this thing is being held in Cleveland. This won’t be a presidential candidate coronation so much as a Pokemon Go tracking gone out of control.īut oh, my God, is this going to be a blast to watch unfold. The truth is that next week’s GOP confab in Cleveland is destined to be the least sincere, least heartfelt, most bizarre, most shallow and bewildering quasi-reality exhibition in American history. Let’s pretend we aren’t completely horrified by this spectacle we feel duty-bound to embrace.įile this under the “Truth is indeed stranger than fiction” heading. Let’s pretend that our being here at all isn’t about party over ideology. Let’s pretend that he stands for actual conservative principles rather than simply for himself. Let’s pretend we think he’s an ideal-driven maverick rather than a clueless, dangerous, possibly deranged demagogue. Let’s pretend that mere weeks and months before, many of us were not openly expressing our contempt for him and launching counter-movements to stop him. Let’s pretend we’re excited that he is poised to be our party’s standard-bearer. Let’s pretend we’re proud of his campaign. Let’s pretend we support and endorse Donald Trump. Imagine it: A group of powerful people will take the stage to play the world’s biggest-ever game of Let’s Pretend.
I am talking of course about the 2016 Republican National Convention, arriving in just two days and promising to supply so much pure entertainment and surrealism that you’ll be left constantly pinching yourself as to whether it is, in fact, real. It will play clear through Thursday night and is destined to dwarf “Roots,” “The Civil War,” “Breaking Bad,” “Mad Men” and everything that came before in terms of sheer majesty and consequence. The greatest television drama of all time is about to unfold on screens big and small, plugged and unplugged, beginning on Monday.
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