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Writing for the Brookings Institute, Linda Schacht usefully highlighted
how the Democratic National Convention, 2024, showed that “a 21st century rhetoric can still inspire in a digital-visual world.” But her short discussion didn’t seek to get into the heart of Democratic mindfulness—the sense of American humanity—that was expressed across leading voices.

Those voices evinced intuitions of the best in us which ensures and advances the ever-incomplete “more perfect union” of American diversity (Our republican democracy which is Our democratic republic). Though the “spiritual” source of those kindred intuitions had no common leading constellation of values explicitly—and no explicit conception of cohering personal, interpersonal, cultural, social, and political relevance—the spirit of dearly held values belonging together was clear—and joyous.