In A Boisterous Second Convention Night, Democrats Turned Republican Attacks On Their Head

CHICAGO — On the second night of the Democratic National Convention, the party tried to counter the GOP’s four-day long pitch in Milwaukee last month in a single night.

The RNC featured paeans to Trump. Democrats got his former employees and supporters to belittle him.

The RNC had Teamsters President Sean O’Brien deliver a speech. A whole flock of Teamsters showed up to thank Democrats for saving their pensions.

The RNC had a full arena in Milwaukee. The DNC had full arenas in Chicago and Milwaukee.

The RNC compared Democrats to communists. The Democrats featured a former Republican and Nicaraguan American who compared Trump to Latin American dictators — and had a former credit card CEO tout Vice President Kamala Harris’ capitalist credentials.

And the DNC actually managed to get their presidential candidate’s spouse to speak at the convention. Oh, and a former president — and that former president’s spouse, who mostly disregarded her past advice to go high when Republicans went low.

“For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us. His limited and narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hardworking, highly educated, successful people who also happened to be Black,” former first lady Michelle Obama said, before delivering one of the night’s standout lines, a reference to an awkward-at-best moment from the first presidential debate: “Who’s going to tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those ‘Black jobs’?”

Democrats’ need to counter the RNC pulled together an otherwise scattershot night, which at one point featured Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an avowed Democratic socialist, followed by a billionaire governor and a former