AS INSTAPUNDIT READERS KNOW, I THOUGHT THE SAME THING: Rush Limbaugh Says Trump’s RNC About Saving America From a Race War.

Also: Rush Limbaugh hails ‘uplifting’ RNC as ‘most diverse political convention I’ve ever seen.’

UPDATE: Okay, let me just spell this out a bit more: The typical thing to do — and what critics would have expected Trump to do — is return hate for hate.  All the white-people bashing at the DNC, with the platform mentioning white people 15 times, all negative, returned in kind, more or less.  Throw the divisiveness back at them. That’s the natural reflex.

Instead he brought up all these positive, successful pro-Trump minority people and told his followers “look, these are our kind of people and we’re glad to have them.” And he reached out to others.  Instead of meeting hate with hate, he met hate with . . . love.  You might almost say ‘love trumps hate.’  Or maybe ‘Trump trumps hate, with love.’  And he did it without being smarmy or rolling over with some kind of sad ‘Republicans can be woke too’ carnival.  He crushed the Democrats on this, and he did it with positivity and inclusion.  I don’t think there’s another political figure today who could have done that, and only a few who might have tried. And it’s the only response that could have pulled the rug out from under the race war the Democrats seem unaccountably to want.

(Bumped).