I follow a handful of outlets for conservative and moderate Republican opinion Today it strikes me that Mr. Trump is going to consolidate Republicans behind him, simply through a piece of magic.
Trump has established a baseline of expectations for his candidacy, a rather low baseline IMHO. But I'm not a Republican. So where I read Dana Milbank's Post article on Trump's speech yesterday which finds the speech filled with falsehoods, some Republicans can find it good. And I think by "good" they mean it was better than they expected, it attacked Clinton, and so they feel better about Trump. Continue this process for another 4.5 months and Republicans will be united behind him.
I only hope Trump's magic is not from the same barrel as Ronald Reagan's was, when we had some similar dynamics.
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