On today’s BradCast: A bunch of longtime, cynical, dyed-in-the-wool progressive political journalists all seem to be largely in agreement today. The 2020 Democratic National Convention — which, one week ago, nobody had any clue what it would look like — was a stunning success on several surprising levels, starting, but not ending with, both Presidential and Vice Presidential acceptance speeches that each exceeded expectations. [Audio link to full show follows below.]
It was an often stark and somber week of uncut, commercial-free, two-hour-a-night politicking which, due to the pandemic, had to be invented from scratch by some remarkably creative minds. The result — according to our guests HEATHER DIGBY PARTON, opinion journalist at Salon and Hullabaloo, and longtime progressive media critic ERIC BOEHLERT of PressRun — was a remarkably cohesive and often moving narrative. The Democrats appear to have successfully framed an epic — and even easy to understand — election match-up featuring The Nicest Guy in the Nation versus its Meanest.
- But will that be enough to defeat Trump, voter suppression, and ongoing chaos amid a crippling pandemic and knee-capped economy?
- Will a platform featuring “the most progressive” programs “any Democratic presidential nominee has embraced in half a century” help counter the convention week’s appeal to independents and disaffected Republican voters that seemed to overshadow, at times, the Party’s more tepid embrace of it’s surging progressive wing?
- Will the bright lights of Joe Biden’s trademark smile and the sunshine-bathed star-power of Kamala Harris be enough to, as the former Vice President promised in his acceptance speech, unify a nation to “overcome this season of darkness in America”?
- And how, pray-tell, will the Republicans match or even answer the Democrats’ carefully crafted and presented story-telling, featuring stars and regular Americans alike, with their own presentation next week?
We answer some of those questions and discuss all of them and much more today on today’s special week-in-review coverage of the 2020 DNC…
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