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The DNC’s TV party: More democratic, less conventional
Contributor: Clarence Page
If necessity is the mother of invention, as the old saying goes, Democrats turned the necessity of convening a presidential nomination during a pandemic into the mother of socially distanced party conventions.
Instead of trying to produce the world’s biggest — and clunkiest — Zoom call, as many observers feared, Democrats dropped all pretense of producing anything but what party conventions actually have been for more than a half-century: a TV show.