Convention leaves Democrats with nightmares

MILWAUKEE — Republicans can’t remember the last time they had it this good. A disciplined and newly introspective presidential candidate. Good polling. A positive news cycle driven by sympathetic headlines after a failed assassination attempt.

Said one former Trump White House official, “I’m still shocked the other shoe hasn’t dropped.”

They checked their phones and pinched themselves with each news alert, marveling at their good fortune every new day of the Republican National Convention.