The evocative sound of barriers falling was the signal note during the Democratic National Convention’s first two nights. …
But there is also an undercurrent of concern that something old is being lost in this celebration of the new. The fear among some is that this polychromatic Democratic Party, open to all races, both genders, all sexual orientations, welcoming to immigrants, and championing diversity, may not have preserved enough room for the working-class white voters who anchored the party from Andrew Jackson through Lyndon Johnson. CONT.
Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic