Editor's note: Bradley Blankenship is a Prague-based American journalist, political analyst and freelance reporter. The article reflects the author's opinions, not necessarily the views of CGTN.

The Republican National Convention (RNC) kicked off this week and so far every night has been filled with the same vomitous platitudes and total ignorance of reality that has marked the Trump presidency. 

On Tuesday, not a single speaker made mention of the fact that over 180,000 Americans have lost their lives to the coronavirus and several speakers, including National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow, referring to the pandemic as if it were already over. 

"Then, came a once-in-100-year pandemic. It was awful, health and economic impacts were tragic; hardship and heartbreak were everywhere," Kudlow said on Tuesday, as if over 1,000 Americans hadn't died from the virus that same day and that hardships were not only just beginning for millions of Americans. 

John Peterson, an owner of a metal fabrication business in Wisconsin, also lamented, "Business can't endure a Biden-induced recession," even though the U.S. economy has already been in a recession since February.  

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who spoke in Jerusalem on the taxpayers' dime in a clear violation of the 1939 Hatch Act, cited a list of foreign policy "wins" in regards to China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Ukraine and the Middle East, which, except for the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and dialogue with North Korean leadership to some degree, could almost double as a criminal confession at The Hague. 

Night one also had its gems. South Carolina Senator Tim Scott warned that Democrats would turn the country into a socialist dystopia, Maximo Alvarez from Sunshine Gasoline Distributors bizarrely compared former Democratic vice president Joe Biden to Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, Donald Trump Jr.' s girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle shouted incoherently into an empty auditorium and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk suggested that civilization as we know it would end if Trump exits the White House.

Patricia McCloskey, sans pistol and mustard stained shirt, said that "no matter where you live, your family will not be safe in the radical Democrat America." 

Behind all of these word salads from Republican operatives was the idea that Joe Biden, a run-of-the-mill centrist who probably resembles a Reagan-era Republican more than anything, is somehow a trojan horse for Marxist ideology. While that would definitely be another plot twist to an already strange year, Biden's track record during his nearly 47 years in public life suggests the complete opposite – he is obviously a middle-of-the-road guy in American political discourse, but objectively right-leaning. 

In terms of hard policy, just like the Democratic National Convention last week, there has been scant discussion of an actual political program to help the lives of ordinary Americans. 

The most obvious reason for this is that the Republican program is the cause of Americans' problems which is proven by the amount of bodies, jobless claims and eviction notices that piled up under their leadership. Another reason is that they actually have no fresh ideas – only tax cuts, guns and Judeo-Christian social values. 

Overall the messaging was clear: Stand against Trump and you stand for "the weak, dependent, liberal victim ideology," as Kimberly Guilfoyle said. But this line of attack only appeals to those already drinking the Kool Aid and energizes them to go to the polls; it doesn't broaden the Republican coalition nor convince anyone that the year 2020, under near total Republican control, is going well. 

With these stunts, one might ponder if the Republican Party, the so-called "Grand Old Party," actually occupies the same three dimensional space as the rest of the world or suddenly broke away into an alternate timeline. Instead of ignoring the pandemic as they had before, they are simply pretending it has already come and gone – which in either case shows a departure from both reality and public perception. They are also deeply out of touch with the American people.

Whilst in the middle of an unthinkable dystopia, Republicans are claiming that if the opposition were to take over the presidency, America would be a dystopia. While over 1,000 Americans die per day and millions fall into poverty – many into extreme poverty – Republicans pretend like the worst is somehow already over. This is an insulting line of reasoning, but is certain to carry through the rest of the convention. 

Four years ago, Republicans tried to thwart candidate Donald Trump to save the spirit of their party, now that spirit is dead and gone. Republicans have found themselves in the dynastic era of Trump from which they cannot escape. While few jumped ship, and some even spoke at last week's Democratic National Convention, the list of influential Republicans who have backed this disastrous president is long. 

Even if Trump may fall in November, his political tendencies, including his ruthless rejection of the truth, have infected the Republican Party for generations – they are the real dystopian party.

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