I thought I was crazy—or maybe my contrarianism had run amok—but after thinking about it more and furtive text messages from liberal friends, it seems that the worries about November are more prevalent than would have appeared from last night's snarky, dismissive coverage
Yes, I admit: I'm naturally suspicious when all the lefties, liberals, journalists on my feed are all making fun about how stupid and terrible the RNC speeches were. My instinct then is to assume that if enough "experts" think this, they must be at least partly wrong
While I was watching the RNC speeches and simultaneously reading the Twitter commentary, I kept on thinking to myself: are we watching the same convention?
Day 2. I'm kinda more nervous. I think we're missing something important, and I worry a lot of people who think Biden's victory is sure thing are just in a parallel universe, which as much I hope is real is not
I'm a pessimist by nature and instinct and I like depressing movies, but this doesn't feel right. It's not quite dread yet, but I suppose it could be described, at this early stage, as mild foreboding
I think Democrats made a mistake last week. Like 2016, there was no affirmative message. I don't even know what the message was, beyond let's go back to the way things were before Trump, except that that's not as appealing as we think it is
