Asked by CBS reporter Major Garrett at the GOP convention if it’s a good thing that J.D. Vance is “MAGA 2.0,” Sen. Dan Sullivan said yes.

“I think, just look at the enthusiasm here, right? We have right now what’s going on in this convention, incredible unity, incredibly energy and what I think is not getting a lot of press and I think it should, a really strong platform. Sixteen pages. Very unifying. Simple common sense ideas not just for Republicans, for all Americans. I encourage everyone take it look at it.”

Sullivan said it can be read in 20 minutes and agreed with Garrett that it’s not a doorstop.

Yes, it’s not a doorstop. It’s nonsense. Here is the 16-page delusion.

Sullivan acts as if it’s the greatest political document since the U.S. Constitution, not the written version of an incoherent Trump speech, minus references to Hannibal Lector and imaginary shark attacks on electric boats.

“Not only not a doorstop, Marsha Blackburn, another Senate colleague of mine, she chaired the platform committee, did a great job, but wanted to keep it in simple direct terms on big ideas, but important ideas. The president read it, I think edited it a lot. I’m pretty sure Joe Biden’s not gonna edit the 240-page Democrat platform that they, they’ll put out in a couple weeks,” said Sullivan.

Trump did more than edit the platform. He inserted many of his go-to lies, exaggerations and political attacks. Trump’s name is mentioned on almost every page and he comes in for lavish praise.

“Overall, it reads like an homage to Trump, repeatedly name-checking him and mirroring his unmistakable writing style, with random uppercase letters and sentence fragments scattered throughout,” the Washington Post said.

That no one in the Republican Party sees fit to correct false claims by Trump in the party platform, tone down the boasting or even edit the text to remove excess capital letters and exclamation points shows just how completely the former president controls Trumplicans.

Any educated Trumplican looking at the text should be able to see just how poorly it is written, but they are wearing Trump goggles that turn his gibberish into priceless prose. Kim Jong-un gets this treatment in North Korea.

A more accurate analysis than Sullivan’s came from Rick Wilson, co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, who wrote recently that “The RNC platform reads as if someone asked ChatGPT to translate #Project2025 in moron.”

There is no place in the Trump Republican Party for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who has shown the ability to think for herself, rejecting the blind obedience to Trump that characterizes Sullivan.

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