What it lacked in showy applause, it made up for by highlighting diversity and the stories of ordinary citizens
A strange new political creature drew its first breath on Monday night. The most unconventional of Democratic national conventions was part earnest telethon, part two-hour commercial, part awkward family Zoom call.
There will be plenty of armchair critics, but overall party leaders will be pleased to have projected unity in diversity, swerved past major technical glitches and finished on the grace note of Michelle Obama, who delivered what amounted to an alternative state of the union address.
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