IN THE end, Bernie Sanders came through. The senator from Vermont had threatened to take his fight for a “political revolution” to the floor of the Democratic National Convention, which was held in Philadelphia between July 25th and 28th. But when his aggrieved supporters had the temerity to take that threat seriously, by booing the convention’s early stages, Mr Sanders tried to calm them, and just about succeeded. Reprising the healing role Hillary Clinton played on behalf of Barack Obama in 2008 when she was the loser, it was he who declared her the Democratic presidential nominee. Mrs Clinton is the first woman to fill that role for either of America’s main parties.
Mr Obama, who is currently enjoying his highest approval ratings in years, was another star turn. Before a stadium hushed in adoration, he talked up his former secretary of state, rebuked the divisiveness of her Republican rival, Donald Trump, and sought to breathe self-confidence back into a country too short of it. “Anyone who threatens our values, whether fascists or communists or jihadists or home-grown demagogues, will always fail in the end,” he said. It was perhaps his...Continue reading
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