Conventions
I won't be watching any of the Democratic convention. This merely extends my track record of ignoring these media set pieces. That record is only matched by the number of Superbowls I've ignored (all of them, since they began).
But I'm interested in political commentary, and this think piece by Matt Yglesias gets to the heart of the challenges faced by Democrats in running against an unpopular president who could still win.
"Not coincidentally, pollsters find that this summer even as Trump is badly underperforming his 2016 results with white voters (especially women and college graduates), he’s doing a bit better with Black voters and with Hispanic voters. Upscale cosmopolitans seem to feel so deeply in their bones that Trump’s racism should be alienating working-class nonwhites that they experience psychological discomfort at contemplating the reality that it isn’t. Instead, polarization along lines of educational attainment and social trust is occurring so rapidly that it swamps the impact of Trump’s racial politics."
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