text:  You know, this wasn't so much a Republican convention as a Trump convention. And, you know, it was always going to be that way. His team had already rewritten the party's platform in Trump's image right on down to the syntax. But after the assassination attempt, that was supercharged. And just one small example. After the first day when Trump arrived with the white bandage on his ear, more and more attendees came with bandages on their ears in homage to Trump.