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Revenge Plot, by Lauren Oyler

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We've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure Photographs from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, July 2024, by Bruce Gilden © Bruce Gilden/Magnum Photos I n the seventh hour of my flight to the Republican National Convention, I received a text message from a friend saying that the piece I was en route to write had just gotten “way crazier.” I bought the expensive Wi-Fi. Photographs said to be making history circulated: striking, well composed. I texted my friend, half a dozen others, my editor. The lights were dimmed, though the time at our destination was a sunny afternoon; I vibrated like a cell phone. In between time zones, high above place, I was alone in my knowledge that, miles below, something had actually happened. Although I’ve watched every current event of my adult life take place through the smudged screen of social media, it was not at that moment enough. I could see where Don DeLillo was coming from: the crowd, the broadcast,

November 2024 Issue [Report] Revenge Plot Adjust Share The GOP’s identity crisis by Lauren Oyler , Photographs from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, July 2024, by Bruce Gilden © Bruce Gilden/Magnum Photos Listen to an audio version of this article. In the seventh hour of my flight to the Republican National Convention, I received a text message from a friend saying that the piece I was en route to write had just gotten “way crazier.” I bought the expensive Wi-Fi. Photographs said to be making history circulated: striking, well composed. I texted my friend, half a dozen others,

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