The compulsory joy is so forced that these speakers even giggle and gush when talking about poverty and AIDS, but nothing can make a Jason Isbell performance joyful.
Laphonza Butler, the senator from EMILY’s List who nominally represents California but lives in Maryland, gives a shoutout to “the state that I was born and raised in,” Mississippi.
“We believe in the separation of powers and the rule of law*.” – Mallory McMorrow
*Does not apply to the preservation of judicial independence or limits on executive authority.
Now, McMorrow warns that Trump could weaponize DOJ to go after his political opponents. “That is not how it works IN AMERICA!” Unmentioned: Biden’s DOJ has twice indicted Trump and continues to this day attempting to jail Trump.
McMorrow touts “government of the people, by the people, and for the people” after complaining that Trump wants to take power away from unelected agencies unaccountable to voters.
She claims that Democrats believe in “separation of powers and the rule of law,” when Harris herself has publicly mocked the idea that presidents have any limits on their unilateral lawmaking power.
Michigan state legislator Mallory McMorrow brought a comically gigantic bound version of the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” onto the DNC stage with her. She used it to explain that the language in it is, in fact, code designed to hide it’s more nefarious objectives, which makes you wonder why she needed a huge prop in the first place. You don’t need the text if you’re going to perform otherworldly exegesis on it.
We’ve reached the “pretending Trump hasn’t trashed Project 2025 and gotten its principal author fired” portion of the evening. Now, we have Michigan state senator Mallory McMorrow literally hauling a copy of the 900-page white paper to the podium. “Right here, on page 535…”
Who actually believes Trump has read a word of this?
The mood of this set of speakers is one of compulsory joy.
Even the personal anecdotes of people who have known Kamala Harris for years turn on her offering them canned platitudes.
Having other Democratic politicians try to attest to what a great friend Kamala Harris has been to them is about the least convincing pitch possible.
Democrats have spent the evening indulging their mid-pandemic fantasy that they got the response to Covid right. It is an audaciously revisionist narrative, but apparently one they feel confident they can get away with.