Perhaps because the expectations were so high, the buildup so great, and the emotional highs from nights 1, 2, and 3, but I found night four of the Republican convention to be an emotional letdown.
Please don’t hate me for saying it, but the buildup to Trump’s speech made it almost impossible for the reality to meet the expectations, and for me, they didn’t.
It’s not that I am unhappy that Trump is the candidate. It sure looks like Trump is the right man at the right time. The convention as a whole created not just a sense of inevitability but also a sense of “rightness” that Trump is the man leading the Republican Party and soon the country if things continue as they are.
Rather, Trump the man is, after all, only a man, and over the last week, he has grown into a legend in our minds. After the first 20 minutes of his speech, you see him as the man he is again. He’s not a bad…
