Last Night in Chicago.

So, last night I tuned into the DNC and for a minute or so I thought I was watching a re-run of the RNC. Why?

Because the entire audience, and it was a huge crowd, were responding to something that had just been said not by clapping, but by cheering and waving — American flags!

I realized almost immediately that I was watching the DNC because as the screen came into focus with a close-up of the crowd, there were simply too many white women and black men and black women for this to be the RNC.

In fact, the absence of white men both in the crowd and on the stage was a remarkable reminder of how this country has changed, as well as a potent symbol which explains why some people are deathly afraid of this change.

I must have seen at least 25 individuals come onto the stage to give five-minute spiels between when I tuned in and when Kamala finally took the stage. The women and men and women of color must have counted at least 20 of those 25 speakers.

The only white males I recall seeing was a police chief from some town in Wisconsin (or maybe it was Minnesota) who talked about why the Democrats in his state funded, didn’t defund the police, Adam Kinzinger who said he was still a Republic(an) but thought that most of his GOP colleagues should have been at this DNC event as well, and Leon Panetta, who…