Susan Larson ♀️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Editorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Editorial</span></a>: <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> have the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/narrative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>narrative</span></a>. But look at what <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> have <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ceded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ceded</span></a>. </p><p>Watching the DNC, our minds turned Monday to what we saw, or rather what we did not see, at the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RepublicanNationalConvention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanNationalConvention</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Milwaukee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Milwaukee</span></a> last month.</p><p>No <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/former" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>former</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/president" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>president</span></a>. No former <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/vicepresidents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vicepresidents</span></a>. Very few <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/party" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>party</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/grandees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grandees</span></a> of any kind, whether <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/governors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>governors</span></a> or former top <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/officials" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>officials</span></a>. No sense of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/tradition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tradition</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/08/20/editorial-democratic-national-convention-trump-biden-harris/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">chicagotribune.com/2024/08/20/</span><span class="invisible">editorial-democratic-national-convention-trump-biden-harris/</span></a></p>