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Com. Work's dot com. The cover page of the 2024 Republican Party platform begins

with the declaration Make America Great Again, in all caps,

and punctuated by an exclamation point.

Page two of the platform has a dedication

to the, quote, forgotten men and women of America end quote

thereafter follows a policy document that reads less like a conventional party

platform and more like a 16 page Trump tweet, complete with

frequent use of statements in all capital letters, random sentence fragments, and 19 direct references to the former president himself.

That's because this time around, there was no typical platform writing committee, no debate between delegates over which policies to include in the

document that defines the values of the Republican Party.

In fact, Vincent Haley, former deputy assistant to Trump in his first term, oversaw the small

Trump team that wrote the platform.

Trump himself edited it, according to the Washington Post. And last week, Republican delegates arrived in Milwaukee

expecting to join committees and subcommittees to draft, redraft, and then re-readraft the platform.

Instead, they were herded into a room.

Their phones confiscated and sealed in magnetic pouches.

Trump told the delegates via a speaker phone,

quote,

this is something that you'll ultimately pass,

you will pass it quickly, end quote,

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