It ended with a spectacle, there is no doubt. A panoply of Trumps, arrayed on a makeshift stage created on the South Lawn of the White House, fanning out around their patriarch as he officially accepted the Republican nomination for president in front of a forest of American flags. The White House glowed in the background Thursday evening, fireworks exploded overhead and a live, largely unmasked, audience rose to its feet with cheers. The final moment of the final day of the Republican National Convention painted a very unconventional picture, with children and spouses and access to power flexed, of both darkness and light. If his words were graphic in their depiction of what might befall the country if the Democrats win socialism! It crowded out the memory of the relatively undramatic recorded speeches that had come before, from people like Senator Mitch McConnell and Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development.