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The Democratic National Convention is one of the best television series Ive seen this year.
That is a weird sentence.
It is a sentence I would never have imagined writing even six days ago.
Against all odds, it mostly worked.
The two-hour broadcast included a video tribute to the late John Lewis and another signatureSarah Cooperimpression of Donald Trump.
The steady intimacy of the framing really helped in that regard.
It was a line not only straight out of Irish poetry, but straight out ofThe West Wing.
It also served, in a way, as a thematic thread that ran throughout the whole convention.
(I guess Transition to Greatness doesnt look as good on a red baseball cap.)
We will make America proud again.
We will make America safe again.
And we will make America great again.
Multiple speeches mentioned the accomplishments of that administration as a contrast to what we have now.
Nostalgia was tapped in other ways, too.
Julian Castro also was deserving of a speaking slot and didnt get one.
Emotionally and thematically, thats what this convention did.
