It's Monday, August 26, 2024.

I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Today on the briefing we need to do something of a reset after the two national conventions are now

completed, the Democratic National Convention over last Thursday night in Chicago.

But there is so much to unpack on both sides of the partisan divide.

We need to think through some of these issues and try to prioritize what's really important.

I think as Christians look at this picture and try to understand it

first of all we need to go back to Chicago because there's just a lot left on the table

that took place at the Democratic National Convention.

So we're going to get to the presidential and vice presidential nominees very quickly,

but let me just say that a part of what happened at the Democratic National Convention

was an attempted rebranding of one of America's two major political parties.

Now there's another sense in which Donald Trump has sought to do something of the same with the Republican Party, but not nearly with the self-evident

ambition you saw among the Democrats, and frankly, not with the same kind of clarity with

which the Democrats were confusing the issues.

Now I said that deliberately because I think what is being attempted on the

Democratic side is an attitudinal or say just a brand refreshing rather than a change in terms of the ideological substance

and the policy proposals.

If anything, I think it's demonstratively true that the Democrats are lurching greatly

to the left. and over the next several

weeks we're going to have to unpack that issue by issue and we'll do so while documenting

what we are seeing happening on the Democratic side.

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