It is hard to put into words how I feel about tonight’s grotesque event. It was at once a travesty, a farce, and a dystopian exercise in mendacity, disinformation, and fascism. It was, if you will, a stunning and brazen display of American carnage.
None of what Donald Trump said was unsurprising. For anybody paying attention, it was exactly what we should have expected. But to see it play out in real-time—the endless mendacity; the incalculable cruelty and unceasing violence; the assaults on our allies, on the most vulnerable among us, on our rights, on our home—was difficult to take. The ways in which Donald drowned the American people in the vile poison that is his vision of America, and indeed, of humanity, is something I will never forget.