James Carden Live at DNC: The Blob Devours Anti-War Dems

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This week the Democratic party faithful are gathered in Chicago to engage in the quadrennial ritual of formally nominating the presidential ticket as well as whipping up support for their candidates in the homestretch of the election. No longer a forum for contest, the national convention is a multimillion dollar infomercial not only for the candidates, but their policy agendas, strategic messaging, and especially in the modern area, identity politics. We saw this at the Republican confab in July and the Chicago event is no different. In Milwaukee, Donald Trump appeared after an assassination attempt, giving the proceedings a bit of a surreal tinge to the GOP’s message of security and America First. For the DNC, everything seems to be geared toward saying goodbye to the old, in the visage of Joe Bden, who up until this month was the party nominee, and hello to the new, a fully politically rehabilitated VP Kamala Harris, whose official tagline now is, “don’t look back.”

My friend James Carden, a writer for The American Conservative and The Nation, and a keen observer of Washington politics, is in Chicago this week and is taking a few minutes to talk about what he is seeing there and more importantly, how the Gaza protests and foreign policy in general have been abusively sidelined by the party elites.

More from James Carden:

Can Harris Bridge the Great Divide?

Will Philip Gordon Be President Harris’s National Security Adviser?

Neoconservatism by Another Name

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