Deadly drugs keep pouring across our border.

Pro-crime district attorneys have turned our cities into giant crime zones.

So much for the Republicans Unity Convention from WNYC in New York.

This is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Michael Lohanger.

The confidence of the MAGA movement is palpable in Trump's VP pick J.D. Vance, who rode the wave of his Hillbilly pass to lead a new political faction.

The new right is far more extreme.

They believe that the left controls much of the federal government and major actions are necessary.

Plus, how the failed assassination of Donald Trump amplified fervent claims that he is God's chosen candidate.

God Almighty intervened because America is one nation under God and he is certainly not finished

with President Trump.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Michael Loeinger.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone. In my many years on this beat, I've been around the block a few times,

yet I still couldn't decide which was the most corrosive trend in third

millennium American politics, the rage, the deceit, or the hypocrisy. Finally, after tuning into the Republican National Convention,

I decided it was the world building, so slick and delusional.

Our opponents inherited a world at peace and turned it into a planet of war.

We're in a planet of war.

This is false.

Daniel Dale checks facts for CNN.

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