A very active Democratic National Convention told viewers very little. Vice President Kamala Harris has offered a very limited platform as yet, and so speakers backing her said equally as little of substance.
Seeing lots of performance and little substance is nothing new, but it is invariably entertaining. Take state Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D-MI) and her giant prop book of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation policy book that Democrats have been relentlessly attacking. Her speech did nothing but comically perpetuate fears of the agenda that Republican opponent Donald Trump personally has disavowed. Nor did McMorrow seem to take the convention seriously enough to do research on the Supreme Court’s recent Trump v. U.S. decision and instead made the incorrect claim that the court leaves Trump “completely immune from prosecution.”
Because the Democrats from the podium offer no positive platform of their own, it makes sense that their promotional tactic consists of mostly unfounded attacks on the Republican Party. In addition to flat-out lies, the Democratic Party relied also on a false sense of oppression to rile up convention-goers.
In a classic example, Attorney General Dana Nessel (D-MI) sketched out an imaginary scenario of active persecution from Republican lawmakers and justices on the basis of her same-sex partnership. The kicker, though, came when billionaire philanthropist Oprah Winfrey shared how she, too, has been held back by “racism, sexism, income inequality, and division.”
These Harris-aligned speakers are not so different from their pro-Palestinian counterparts. Although dissenting from the “joy” narrative , Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) played her part in the Democratic theater as she pretended that Chicago and Gaza were the same place.
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On the staging front, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) did well, per usual, at setting the scene of his Nebraska hometown. He recounted specific details of “that family down the road” and the “4-4 defense” he ran as a football coach. Of course, this sort of pandering only lands with a crowd that is not of the same background, one easily deceived by the substitution of images for values.
Meanwhile, Walz lacks the support of his actual hometown friends . It is on the basis of divergent values that Walz’s earlier Nebraskan neighbors will not vote for him: They cannot be moved by mere theatricality. If Walz wants to act like all small-towners are of the same mind, independent of real values, his policies will have to wear a better mask.
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