[molson]

In my fictional head cannon, that McCain speech is the moment Trump got the idea to actually play directly to that base. It just seems crazy in retrospect that the party nominee was such at odds with the people who came to see and support him. It was a different, more innocent time when we just expected people, even Republicans, to rise above that and be the grown up, and there was nothing particularly noteworthy about it. Now, Trump is praised simply for not joining in on the chant - though it must only be a matter of time before he takes the next step, whatever that is. McCain (like Reagan, for some of the stuff he said about immigration), would have been booed out of that room and branded a traitor today.