Flipboard Culture DeskThe Republican National Congress isn't just attended by the Trump family and Hulk Hogan: The Smithsonian's political history curators are also there, collecting items that will help tell the story of the 2024 presidential election. @TheConversationUS interviewed two of them about the items they're seeing and what they mean. "Because this convention is so united behind Trump, there’s less need to use signs and other materials to object to or support other candidates," says curator Jon Grinspan. "An absence of objects can say as much about a moment in time as a wealth of them."
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‘MAGA BLACK’ hats, clear swag bags, the first Trump/Vance signs: Highlights of what the Smithsonian is archiving from the Republican convention
Tight security may be the reason that the GOP Convention isn’t filled with the homemade, and often wacky, stuff that’s usually found by Smithsonian political ephemera curators at the event.