Democrats Nail the Coronavirus Convention
Every moment is about building personal connection with ever more minutely micro-targeted demographic groups.
Richard Nixon pulled the American political convention into the television era. COVID-19 has pulled the convention into the social-media era.
Before 1968, political conventions were events. Things happened. Which meant that things could go wrong—very badly wrong, and wrong in front of a national television audience. Republicans suffered a disastrous convention in 1964: walkouts, booing, crazy speeches.
The Nixon campaign of 1968 accepted that conventions were now, above all, a . Nothing must ; everything must
