Alyssa Rosenberg, Washington Post:
You don’t usually need to market normal. But on the first night of the Democratic National Convention, that was the most powerful element of the party’s pitch: Vote for Joe Biden, a regular guy, and you can have some semblance of your everyday life back.
As politics, that’s a modest pitch. But as television, the convention did something impressive: It made ordinary life feel within reach again.
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That’s the core promise of the Biden-Harris campaign: Vote for us, and you can have back what you took for granted. The pitch isn’t a fantastical, malignant pledge to make America great in a way it never was. It’s just a reminder that what we had when this year began was good, that it’s worth fighting for and that it’s still within reach.
