If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still questions the power of its democracy, who wonders whether you really can send a lynch mob to the Capitol with instructions to execute your own vice-president and still get re-elected four years later, then last night in Milwaukee was probably your answer.
The answer came with a full five hours of build-up. It was part rock concert, part evangelical rally, part Wrestlemania. That’s not some flight of fancy either. That’s precisely what it was. When Billy Graham’s son came out to lead the crowd in prayers for Donald Trump, he had to step over actual Hulk Hogan’s freshly ripped-off T-shirt, which was still