Whether they are gone for good or make a comeback down the road, the old-school national political conventions are over for now
The sun sets on the 2020 Democratic convention, originally scheduled for Milwaukee. Photo: Doug Pensinger/Getty Images The original Democratic National Convention planned for Milwaukee this summer was postponed and then shrunk thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. And now it’s all but disappearing into a virtual haze, as the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports:
Whatever was left of an in-person 2020 Democratic National Convention evaporated Wednesday as organizers announced Joe Biden won’t be traveling to Milwaukee to give his presidential acceptance speech.With the coronavirus pandemic paralyzing modern politics, Democrats will hold a virtual convention.
Because they initially resisted a virtual convention and never completely committed to one, Republicans can’t entirely abandon Charlotte the way they abandoned the temporary replacement city of Jacksonville; a few hundred delegates will actually assemble in North Carolina to conduct essential business , carrying proxies from the rest of the delegates. At this point, it’s not even clear that those activities will be open to the media and the public.
What’s less clear is whether these developments are pandemic hiccups that will give way in four years to a return of old-school national political conventions in their bloated and bloviating glory — or if these will be mercifully consigned to history as the atavistic and gratuitous events they have become in recent decades since losing their deliberative function.
As someone who worked in the innards of Democratic conventions from 1988 in Atlanta through 2008 in Denver, I have to say it’s past time for these empty spectacles to go away. I’m just old enough to remember conventions that were interesting and spontaneous enough to justify TV-network “gavel-to-gavel coverage,” before nominees selected in primaries much earlier crushed the life out of them. And now they may finally be giving up the ghost.
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