There was a necessary and healthful aspect to all this. Trump richly deserved to be called out for his bigotry and sexism. Many voters would eventually back Hillary purely to show their disgust with Republican racism. But it is not easy to turn a political convention into a Sunday school. And what I saw in Philadelphia was a hollow performance. The virtue quest kept being defeated by the ugly facts on the ground. The lavish investment-bank parties about which attendees kept hearing, for example. Or the special deal that the party of organized labor struck with Uber to ferry delegates back and
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