There's whiplash — and then there's the experience of watching the RNC on night three as speakers careen from denouncing Democratic nominee Joe Biden as a closet leftist who will oversee the intentional dismantling of everything righteous and good about America to fulsome defenses of progressive policies and ideals, sometimes from the same speaker and in the space of a few seconds.
On Tuesday night, women's reproductive rights were denied and denounced by an activist who believes in "household voting" (each household receiving one vote), with final voting decisions being made by the household's husband and father. But on Wednesday, the RNC portrayed Republicans as champions of the Women's Suffrage Movement and associated itself with Susan B. Anthony and other heroes of the fight for women's rights.
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