Commentary: The traditional political convention is dead. Long live the virtual one
TV viewing of Joe Biden’s acceptance speech fell 21% short of the 29.8 million who watched Hillary Clinton’s address when she was nominated in 2016.
The first-person format was surprisingly powerful. It beat listening to another statesman reiterating the same old stump speech, replete with anecdotes about “hard-working Americans.” No longer reduced to the “middle-aged Black woman,” “older white man” and “young Latino” of party focus groups and polling demographics, the words of the people in “We the people” rang true.
Strange as it felt compared to what we’re used to, it would have been much stranger to watch zealous crowds cavorting in silly hats while Rome burns. A pandemic death toll of more than 170,000, an economic downturn, systemic racial injustice, uprisings against that injustice, the rise of white supremacy, attempts to dismantle the postal service, global warming and everything else that keeps us up at night and asleep midday.
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