Whatever else happens this year, the conventions will be new and different. It’s an opportunity for the parties and the candidates to be creative and do something we haven’t seen before.
We had both found ourselves at a dinner at some nice Italian restaurant in Cleveland, and I’d wandered off to join a few reporters who were talking with Roger Stone at another table. When I came back, the “InfoWars” proprietor had taken my seat and my pasta, which he was then attempting to spoon-feed to another journalist.
Reporters like to go to conventions because they’re fun. News organizations send those reporters partly as a show of force, proof that they can still put boots on the ground in our era of layoffs and diminishing revenues. The bigger outlets might even throw a party, complete with novelty guests like Stone. The next day, the journalists and operatives will all share stories about the person of some prominence who was booted from the party after a sixth martini.
Decades ago, in a much different America, political conventions had a clear and distinguished purpose: It was where each party, every four years, chose their candidates for president and vice president. Delegates showed up from around the country to push for the selection of this or that candidate, stirring arguments were made from the main podium, and deals were hatched in rooms that were actually smoke-filled.
The irony, if you can call it that, of this outsized importance is that the conventions will be virtual this year. The comparison most frequently made is to a Zoom call or Google Hangout, which may steal away what little drama was left from what had already become scripted, choreographed displays of party unity. From the perspective of the parties, conventions still make a lot of sense, first and most important because they get a lot of coverage.
This is all worthwhile. It’s good for people who don’t obsess about political coverage to be reminded of what each party stands for, who the leaders are, how they act, what they say.
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