On the penultimate night of this unconventional Democratic convention, the pace of that transition visibly accelerated. Barack Obama has loomed large over everything that passes for a political thought inside the skull of his successor. Beyond his own inability to do the job of president, Trump has no clue about what the job entails. The political transition on show on the third night of the Democratic convention was not confined to the White House. But unlike Obama, Harris has arrived at a time when she can invoke Martin Luther King Jr’s beloved community and spell out what it will take to create it.

Source: The Guardian August 20, 2020 14:26 UTC