Opinion | Republican Convention Best and Worst Moments From

Kevin Williamson It is easy to make fun of the treacly crooner-Bible salesman Lee Greenwood, who is the James Taylor of Elmer Gantrys, but remember that he was born the month before Biden. And it isn’t just the thudding beat of “God Bless the USA” that makes him seem more animated than the president.
Coaston David Sacks has the charisma of the sound of the word “taupe.”
Wehner It won’t influence the outcome in a single state. The pick’s importance is what it signifies: an effort by Trump to institutionalize the MAGA revolution. Insurrectionism is in; so is invective. This is a massive blow to the G.O.P.’s internationalist wing. It’s also an encouragement to cynics and bootlickers everywhere.
Williamson Vance’s impact will be modest. He is young, which is interesting, but has no real record, and only eight years ago, he was a venture-capital dork nobody had ever heard of. He is not an electrifying speaker, and his habit of repeating Moscow’s foreign policy talking points may cause trouble.