[Daily Kos will be covering the Republican convention tonight from 8 PM to 11 PM ET.] Having survived the first night of the Republican National Convention, we and Donald Trump both prepare ourselves for the second. We pivot from last night's festival of blood and gore to a hopefully less Draculian topic: labor and the economy. (Then again, this is Donald Trump we are talking about—for all we know the night will be devoted to stories of brave American business leaders walling up labor leaders in abandoned coke ovens.) The theme for the evening is Make America Work Again , but we shall choose a more apt title: the Airing of Still More Grievances . Today the convention delegates officially nominated Donald Trump as the Republican candidate for president, marking the equally official end of the Republican Party. The mood as we start these primetime hours is appropriately funereal, presuming we’re talking about a funeral in which everyone is wearing oversized novelty hats and are very obviously drunk. That's the good news. The bad news is that we seem to have used up all the Republican star power yesterday with Scott Baio and the ex- General Hospital guy. We'll be starting out tonight in speaker wasteland; it only gets better (if you can call it better) when we kick off the ritual presentation of the severed heads of Donald Trump’s primary foes—sorry, I mean that tonight is the night we'll start seeing "endorsement" speeches from a f
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