What a conference, oh my god, what a conference! We’ve solely accomplished Day 2 in Chicago, but it surely appears like a lifetime—a lifetime of pleasure, happiness, fierce willpower, and unity.
I began Day by day Kos in 2002, and I’ve by no means seen the celebration extra unified than at this second.
That is a part of President Joe Biden’s legacy—inheriting a fractured Democratic Occasion and simply 4 years later, seeing it marching ideologically collectively.
There isn’t a Bernie vs. Hillary battle, nor something past wholesome and respectful disagreement inside our Huge Tent. It was telling that mere weeks after Democratic Socialists of America disowned Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she took the stage on Monday as a full-fledged consultant of the American Democratic Occasion mainstream—with out ever having compromised a single tenet of her beliefs. The celebration has moved to the place she was all alongside. The final two laggards within the Senate, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, will likely be gone subsequent 12 months.
On the conference, the media desperately wished one other 1968, when protests and division sundered that 12 months’s Democratic conference in Chicago. As a substitute, deliberate protests fizzled, barely impacting the proceedings. It’s not simply the celebration that’s united, however so is the bottom.
And it’s not simply due to Donald Trump. This isn’t a celebration unified by terror and concern of a second Trump presidency. That is one unified by widespread objective, pleasure, and hope.
And how will you not be fired up given our celebration? Now we have the most effective veterans: Biden, Hillary and Invoice Clinton, Michelle and Barack Obama, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Jim Clyburn, Jimmy Carter, and so many extra of our unbelievable elders.
And our bench, oh, our bench!
Simply two days into our conference, we’ve already seen a number of of them—AOC, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, and Sen. Raphael Warnock. Now we have so many extra but to talk and past, like Govs. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Gavin Newsom of California, and Wes Moore of Maryland. There’s Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who might be the state’s governor someday. (Critically, control her.)
In the meantime, that is the Republican Occasion:
That is ours:
That is their power:
That is ours:
One thing wonderful is occurring, and now we have an actual alternative to make it not simply actual in the present day, however eternal.
And all of it begins with being on the identical web page, unified, targeted on what’s vital. Trump is not the principle character on this story; we’re engaged on one thing larger, extra significant and purposeful, and it’s enjoyable.
It feels wonderful. Let’s hold doing it!
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