I’ve intentionally (even desperately) avoided watching any of the convention coverage, but, as with SotU addresses, I find the disconnect between partisan viewers on both sides to be astonishing. A speech that one person describes as snarky, arrogant, hateful, stupid, clumsy, and\/or utterly representative of every horrific cliché about the speaker’s party is described by another as thoughtful, profound, uplifting, classic, engaging, inspirational, and\/or utterly representative of what’s best about the speaker’s party. And that was as true for the DNC as the RNC coverage.<\/p>\n
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