The Democrats continued their theme that Americans should be optimistic about the national condition, but tonight they went much more anti-Trump tonight than on Monday and Tuesday. I think the criticisms of Trump were more effective than the praise for their own record, but all in all it was an effective night. I’d make an exception, though, for Senator Kaine, who may have been the nicest person to take the podium and had been given good material to work with but just did not, to my ear, make it work.
President Obama was the best of the speakers, especially when he was not talking about himself. The introductory film presented him as a brave leader, right before a speech in which its subject couldn’t bring himself to stick up for free trade in front of the delegates. Obama has always struck me as the most self-satisfied of presidents, and even if Hillary Clinton succeeds him I will look forward to seeing less of that trait in the Oval Office.
The Democrats, on the Attack Against Trump