The Republican National Convention was as notable for what went unspoken as the narrative that was unspooled about a former president who survived an apparent assassination attempt and criminal prosecutions in the days ahead of the event. The RNC sought to normalize Donald Trump and skip over his extremist agenda and coup attempt, wrote New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd — and instead highlighted his supposed softer side with humanizing tales about his grandchildren and graphic accounts of his recent brush with death. “Trump is a master of narrative,” Dowd wrote. “Not always true narrative,…