Very depressing.

Looking back over the decades, from Nixon on, I can see how this evolved. But I had a more idealistic, and now obviously markedly naive, view of human nature.

The ugliness of the racism and misogyny and the sheer lack of dignity are shocking.

For me very little of this is surprising.  We have talked for months about how dirty and desperate this campaign was clearly going to be.   That said, the one thing that really crosses the line (what line) that's amazed even me in its cravenness was trotting out the grieving mother in prime time to accuse Hillary of killing her son just to promote their ridiculous Behghazi fantasies.

Who often called for Bush and Cheney to be jailed.

Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan.

Just do a search.

Scott Baio: "I wrote my speech in church on Sunday."

Tamron Hall, MSNBC: "Were you also in church when you tweeted that picture of Hillary Clinton with the C-word?"

(Bah-DUMM-Bumm-Bumm!)

And the hits just keep on coming! Here's former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz, waking up the echos about immigration at an RNC luncheon today:

"I don't want to become you. I don't want to speak your language, I don't want to celebrate your holidays, I sure as hell don't want to cheer for your soccer team!"

And this being the Republican National Convention, the audience cheered and applauded. But were I in charge over at ESPN, I'd publicly can that old jackass for his hateful and poisonous remarks.

Billboard-

Update: Queen's publishing company, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, has issued an official statement against Trump and the Republicans:

Sony/ATV Music Publishing has never been asked by Mr. Trump, the Trump campaign or the Trump Organization for permission to use "We are the Champions" by Queen. On behalf of the band, we are frustrated by the repeated unauthorized use of the song after a previous request to desist, which has obviously been ignored by Mr. Trump and his campaign.

Queen does not want its music associated with any mainstream or political debate in any country. Nor does Queen want "We are the Champions" to be used as an endorsement of Mr. Trump and the political views of the Republican Party. We trust, hope and expect that Mr. Trump and his campaign will respect these wishes moving forward.

 But regardless of the legality it's the irony that's lost on some.

Charkes Pierce-

This was not the weird part.

The weird part was that this transition was set to "We Are The Champions."
The weird part was the arena full of Republicans singing along to Queen.
An arena full of people singing along to Queen, when their official party platform can be characterized as "strongly anti-Freddie Mercury."
An arena full of people singing along to Queen, when their party's presumptive Vice Presidential nominee said marriage equality would bring about "societal collapse."
An arena full of people singing along to Queen, when their party's presumptive Vice Presidential nominee wants to pull funding from organizations that treat people with the disease that killed Freddie Mercury, unless they "provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior."
Basically, an arena full of people saying "Listen, Freddie: we love your song and we'll use its message to our advantage, but if you want our actual support, you're going to have to behave more like the guys in Florida Georgia Line."
Disgusting.
And then, of course, Donald Trump approached the microphone and the first thing he said was "Oh, we're gonna win so big, folks," and then he introduced his wife, who recited Michelle Obama's speech from the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
Also, the use of "We Are The Champions" was unauthorized.