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The New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the sights and sounds of this year’s Democratic National Convention—an event defined by the projection of unity, and bearing a palpable sense of relief among Party insiders. In his Monday-night speech, President Biden “got the moment he wanted,” Marantz said, “and he gave, to people who needed it, that personal psychological closure.” Plus, Marantz and Foggatt reflect on the D.N.C.’s use of “cringe-millennial culture” to contrast itself with the macho bravado of Donald Trump’s R.N.C.
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