Holy hell. I was going to link the latest Heather Cox Richardson because of the bit on the Republican Party’s “abandonment of writing a party platform”—but then I was caught short by the part about the move of Mine Furor’s nomination acceptance speech to Florida.
Trump will give his acceptance speech in Jacksonville on August 27. The date is the sixtieth anniversary of a brutal attack on Black Jacksonville residents by white mobs brandishing baseball bats and ax handles, an event known as “Ax Handle Saturday.”
Coming as it is on the heels of his Juneteenth rally in Tulsa, the site of another historically brutal attack of black Americans by white mobs, we now appear to have the beginnings of a pattern. It’s enough to make you doubt the campaign’s claims of surprise regarding Tulsa.