Democrats will tell you they are excited about Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.
The delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, this week kept talking about how much fun they were having and how much “joy” they were feeling. Democrats who watched the speeches on television gushed about how amazing they were.
Some of those feelings were real. But remember: that’s how Democrats feel, not how other Americans feel. The convention, objectively, was not so great.
The United Center was a logistical mess, and lacked any of the carnival atmosphere or festive charm that Republicans enjoyed at their convention in Milwaukee last month. The music was mediocre; the speeches, except for Harris’s, were far too long; and then there was the Beyoncé no-show debacle.
The weather outside was perfect; the city was shining; only one delegate was robbed at gunpoint. Not bad — for Chicago. But the convention itself failed to explain to the American people what Kamala Harris intended to do as president. There was no vision, no policy.
The constant, spontaneous refrain was: “We’re not going back.” But there was never an explanation of where Democrats are going to, or where Harris wants to take the country.
Until the last evening, when a string of speakers discussed foreign policy — all Ukraine, no Israel — the only policy discussed was abortion. […]
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