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From the moment the Democratic National Convention opened in Chicago on Monday morning, a vast difference between it and its Republican counterpart became apparent, one that says a lot about the state of both parties.
Walking into the RNC in Milwaukee, one was greeted by almost a street party atmosphere with outdoor seating, refreshments, and even cornhole courts set up for attendees. For four days, it was the people, not just the power players on stage, that were the heart and soul of the party.
There is no carnival atmosphere at the United Center here in Chicago. Instead, it is mostly the arena itself. If it weren’t for the long lines at security and the giant pictures of Kamala Harris, you could almost go to a Blackhawks game.
This is a telling difference between the two parties, whose views on voters’ control over bosses differ so widely.
Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks as her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, looks on during a stop on her campaign bus tour in Rochester, Pennsylvania, August 18, 2024. Harris embarked on a bus tour of the potentially election-deciding state of Pennsylvania on Sunday to keep spirits up ahead of her star-studded appearance at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
Kamala Harris’ San Francisco is a dystopian nightmare. Is this what she has planned for America?
Polls show that most Democrats are happy with the Biden-Harris swap, which is largely what I’ve found from talking to them across the country. But the fact remains that Harris came into office with no votes, and Biden was only voted out when major donors threatened to shut down the campaign fund.
It is almost impossible to believe that Republican voters who have rebelled against the elites and donors twice in two decades – first with the Tea Party and then with Trump – would accept such exclusion from the process.
The lack of formal meeting rooms at the DNC highlights another important difference between our country’s parties: Democrats have good reason to fear that these rooms could be used by their own people for an embarrassing protest against Israel, the police, or any number of left-wing bogeymen. Republicans have no such fears.
Look to chaotic Chicago, not the Democratic Convention, to see what disasters await us under Harris-Walz.
In fact, just blocks from the convention, thousands of such protesters vented their anger at Harris and the Democrats in a colorful spectacle of sights, sounds and smells. The only “Republicans” protesting against Donald Trump are doing so from MSNBC’s television studios, not by occupying the streets.
In an image that could be a perfect metaphor for the modern American left, I saw a huge line of people waiting to use the six portable toilets on site. As the saying goes, in communism, you are provided with everything, but you don’t get much of it.
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Among the protesters I spoke to, none wanted to give their name, some even refused to give their face. They were divided over whether they would vote for Harris. But none of them liked her or the other rulers with a “D” after their names at the convention down the street.
And that’s a problem for Harris, because she needs them.
What we can deduce about the state of the Democrats and Republicans from the style of their conventions is remarkable. In Milwaukee, the people were the show. It was like a small town having a carnival. In Chicago, the Democrats created a very controlled experience. It’s basically just a matter of doing what you’re told.
Don’t worry, there will be delegate parties and other fun events all over town, but the Democratic Convention itself is a buttoned-down, top-down affair, befitting the current form of the party of Jefferson and Jackson.
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In the Republican Party, it is always the voters who frustrate and confuse the professionals and donors. That is the nature of populism. And those same voters have shown that they are more willing to lose than return to a Republican Party that ignores their priorities.
The Democrats are different. For them, it’s more about fitting in, even if it’s a party that’s not particularly fun.
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