Organizers estimate that there will be 50,000 protesters at the Republican National Convention in the Twin Cities this coming week. We will be treated to the spectacle of the unwashed and unshaven madly objecting to the clean and conservative – from a television standpoint, it’s exactly the opposite of what the protesters seek to accomplish.
But they ought to know this by now. They ought to know that the media will spotlight the seediest among them, and it will make the Republicans inside look very reasonable by contrast. And the Republicans will get a bump in the polls.
It’s only happened a hundred times before. Even the Daily Show makes fun of them. They ought to know this. But they don’t. They’re idiots.
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As noted below, Democrats in Denver sought to confine their protesters to Orwellian “Free Speech Zones”. Republicans are going to let them wander freely. And now we know why.
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