GOP showcasing intelligent arguments by nice people

John Podhoretz:

The second night of the Republican National Convention shared the first night’s surprising power and authority. The RNC has systematically presented effective arguments in favor of the administration and its efforts — arguments that have largely been drowned out by Trump himself throughout his term in office.

One after the other, ordinary people and relatively modest state-level politicians hit home the themes that will make or break the Trump reelection effort — on this night in particular, the role of faith and redemption and the lack of the same in the rhetoric and policies of the Democrats.

As a former presidential speechwriter, I can tell you that these were uncommonly well-wrought addresses that could not easily be characterized as extremist or inflamed even as they advanced positions anathematic to the mainstream media — like the centrality of religion and the threat to religious liberty and the moral hazard of abortion on demand.

You could see, as you could on the first night, the path the Trump campaign is trying to chart to win on Nov. 3 — to win back suburbanites who fled the GOP in 2018 by making Trump seem more enlightened on questions of race and crime than the media portray him, and to define Biden as the tired steward of a party whose embrace of revolutionary rhetoric makes him too great a risk to serve as president.
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I think the Democrats succeeded in 2018 based on their fraudulent claims of Russian collusion.  In my opinion, that makes their current house majority illegitimate.  Voters that fell for this scam in 2018 should be livid with Democrats.