Democrats focused on two dark themes Monday night. The first was the death and devastation they blame on President Trump. The second was the further death and devastation they fear he will unleash if he is reelected in November.
During her keynote speech on the opening night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, former first lady Michelle Obama delivered a bleak warning that summed up the two hours of pandemic-era programming that had come before it.
The first was the death and devastation that Democrats blame on the Trump presidency, with 170,000 killed by the coronavirus pandemic, tens of millions of jobs lost, a racial reckoning in the streets and the integrity of the upcoming election in doubt. The second was the further death and devastation they fear that Trump will unleash if he is reelected in November.
It wasn’t just Trump’s role in the response. “My dad was a healthy 65-year-old,” said Kristin Urquiza, who wrote an op-ed about the death of her father in Arizona that went viral over the summer. “His only pre-existing condition was trusting Donald Trump, and for that he paid with his life.” Obama went on to paint a dark portrait of the United States today, with “people shouting in grocery stores, unwilling to wear a mask to keep us all safe”; with “people calling the police on folks minding their own business just because of the color of their skin”; with “an entitlement that says only certain people belong here, that greed is good, and winning is everything, because as long as you come out on top, it doesn't matter what happens to everyone else.
“Under this administration, authoritarianism has taken root in our country,” Sanders said, before evoking his Jewish relatives who died in the Holocaust. “I, and my family, and many of yours, know the insidious way authoritarianism destroys decency, democracy and humanity. As long as I am here, I will work with progressives, with moderates — and yes, with conservatives — to preserve this nation from a threat that so many of our heroes fought and died to defeat.
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