But here, at our convention, there will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth, and nothing else.

After hearing that speech I need a shower. Despite Trump’s claim up there, there were a lot of lies told in that speech (this site enumerates some 21), but more than that there was an attempt to portray America as a country in decline, one hopelessly indebted to the future, beset by crime, with invading brown hordes at the border, all of whom are coming here to kill us.

I’ll bet that if you surveyed every one of the people in that hall no more than ten could say they’d been a victim of a crime in the past ten years. Nonetheless, they’ve allowed themselves to be persuaded that they’re in danger of being murdered or robbed at gunpoint or burglarized every day. I don’t understand how they can ignore the facts as they’ve experienced them to believe that, but they’ve apparently done so.

The Democrats have got to figure out how to fight back against a candidate and campaign which ignores complaints that its facts are wrong, its claims are ridiculous, and its principal can’t go two sentences without pronouncing a lie.