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The Democrats’ challenge now is to figure out how to keep the joy going for the next two and a half months.

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At the Democratic National Convention, I heard more about Trump’s policy agenda than Harris’s.

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Democrats are embracing Trump dissidents. Will GOP voters buy their argument?

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At the DNC, Hillary Clinton has achieved something approaching icon status among Democrats coming of age.

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The most emotional moment of the DNC so far has not been Joe Biden’s goodbye.

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“All of us,” he told his party’s convention, “across the political spectrum, seem quick to assume the worst in others unless they agree with us on every single issue.”

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Democrats try a new model of masculinity.

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The party has changed during, or been changed by, the Trump years.


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