Last night’s theme at the Republican National Convention — Make America Safe Again — didn’t just exist as a slogan. National security and crime got an intense focus last night, especially in relation to border security and the fentanyl plague that has devastated middle America. Nearly every featured speaker, with the possible exception of Speaker Mike Johnson’s compelling speech on conservative principles and Vivek Ramaswamy’s on American exceptionalism (watch them here), related to the topic of security and the failures of Joe Biden to provide it.
But by far the most compelling voices on these issues came not from elected officials and candidates, but from everyday Americans whose lives have been tragically altered by crime. As the NY Times puts it in review, the stars of the evening were those lost in crime and drug waves, whose family members came to testify to the failures…
