Chris Smith writes,
Florida has been the national leader in tragicomic political events since at least the Bush–Gore recount of 2000—but lately, Georgia is giving its southern neighbor a run on the weirdness-and-depravity front. There’s Brian Kemp voter-suppressing his way into a win in the 2018 race for governor; claiming, in April 2020, that he had just learned that the coronavirus could be spread by asymptomatic people—and now inviting the Republican National Convention to come to the state this summer. …
“You’re seeing an influx of new voters to the state, but what you’re really finding is white women switching,” says a top Georgia Democratic strategist. “They were solidly, reliably Republican until Trump and Parkland. Those two things have turned those voters. They’re embarrassed by Trump, and I think there’s an argument to be made that they’re also embarrassed by Kemp and Loeffler.” …
Nope. Not the sort of person you want to entertain down at the country club.
And the thought of an August convention/Nuremberg rally in downtown Atlanta—with 50 thousand coughing and spitting knuckleheads closely packed together? Not exactly something calculated to warm the cockles of your heart.
