The DNC’s choice of who to feature speaks volumes about the party’s inability to see its own future, RTraister writes
Photo-Illustration: Getty Images When the Democratic National Committee released its schedule for its big socially distanced convention this week, we learned that New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, inarguably among the party’s most dynamic figures, would have just sixty seconds to address the nation. Ocasio-Cortez responded by tweeting out a poem by Benjamin E. Mays, the same that late Rep.
But at least she and Ocasio-Cortez have prime-time speaking gigs, while many of their peers—the energetic new thinkers and voices of America’s liberal and left politics, many of them from diverse backgrounds, with perspectives and experiences fresh to the party—have not been given featured berths at all.
Remember those women who retook the House in 2018? A bunch of them were first time candidates who were open about how their entrance into politics was grounded in their fury about the ubiquity and pervasiveness of sexual harassment and assault in the wake of Donald Trump’s election and the #metoo movement.
As for the kids, the DNC has tapped former South Bend Indiana mayor and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg–whose youthful fervor for generational change gave way, over the course of his primary journey, to a waxy simulacrum of the generation that preceded him–to give a featured address.
Just as many centrists like to warn progressivesthat they cannot extrapolate too much about the nation’s leftist appetites from select victories like Ocasio-Cortez’s, I would argue that it’s a grave error to extract so much about the desires of a Democratic base from Biden’s victory.
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