EDGE: Jonathan Jones & Larken Egleston Debate The RNC

Jonathan Jones has been writing up a storm this week, penning a scathing op-ed for Charlotte Magazine about Charlotte city leaders’ decision to bring the Republican National Convention to town in 2020.

Here’s just some of Jonathan’s essay:
“They have invited groups of people the Republican Party has welcomed over the years. People who believe we should arm toddlers. People who believed Sandy Hook was a hoax.
Neo-Nazis.
White nationalists.
White supremacists.
Whatever other distinctions we are supposed to make rather than just simply calling racists, racists.
Alex Jones, who believes the killing of 20 schoolchildren and six adults was a false flag, will report outside your favorite uptown bar.
David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the KKK, will acquiesce to selfie requests on Tryon Street.
Richard Spencer, the featured speaker at last summer’s rally-turned-deadly-riot in Charlottesville, will greet his hotel valet with a Nazi salute.
Our city’s leaders have invited multiple foxes into the henhouse.
And they want the hens to hold the peace.”

City council voted 6-to-5 in favor of hosting the RNC in 2020 last Monday.