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The Democratic Party Needs To Embrace Its Younger Superstars
Republicans and Bill Clinton aren’t going to inspire anyone — for that, we need folks like AOC and Stacey Abrams to get more screen time
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As far as Covid-era levels of TV production go, the first two days of the 2020 Democratic National Convention have been the political equivalent of the BET Awards.
In a year that got exhausting long before the presidential election, there’s a real effort not to bore an audience — which explains the Billy Porter performance on night one — even when there’s no physical audience. It couldn’t have been easy to reimagine a modern tradition so completely, let alone so abruptly, so I can’t totally bash the event, but for all intents and purposes, it’s been… fine.
The less-is-more approach proves that the DNC needn’t waste millions of dollars on parties and pageantry. That’s not a knock to the city of Milwaukee, which could have certainly benefited from that missing money to the point that Los Angeles mayor and Biden campaign co-chair Eric Garcetti called for the Wisconsin city to get a redo in 2024. (Let’s just hope America isn’t living…
