The DNC Cringefest | The Roundtable Ep. 31 Segment 2
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
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🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Only 75 days out from the general election, the Democrats are finally holding their national convention. Everyone, even prominent left-wing figures, agree that it is an unmitigated disaster. Our editors analyze the strange gyrations of a party in its digital death throes, and the sinister new Left that is rising to take its place.
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| 0:00.0 | There's bad lines being wrong. |
| 0:06.0 | Nobody's right if everybody's wrong. |
| 0:10.0 | Young people speak in their minds are getting so much resistance |
| 0:17.0 | fall behind time we stop. Hey what's that sound everybody look what's going down |
| 0:27.0 | well friends it's come I know you've all waiting, you've all been waiting for the time |
| 0:35.0 | when the Democratic Party would host its national convention. I know that I sit at home, lie awake even, roll over in bed and think, surely today the Democrats |
| 0:48.8 | will host a national convention. |
| 0:50.2 | But no, for many months it has not been so and now at last the day is here. It's like Christmas |
| 0:57.1 | It's like the Super Bowl. It's like everything you've always waited for all wrapped into one and the Democrats have delivered I think quite plainly there |
| 1:06.8 | have been this is the most tweetable d. N.C. there has ever been certainly even before there was Twitter there was not a more |
| 1:15.2 | tweetable DNC which is in itself a kind of form follows function argument to be |
| 1:19.2 | reflected upon there in this there are signs for those who reflect that the Twitter age, the digital age has |
| 1:24.5 | produced somehow almost inexorably by its own logic a dncency which is made out of the signs and symbols of sort of digital media. |
| 1:36.0 | It's got this kind of these weird clips of aging people trying to sound like they know where they are or what time it is or who they're talking to. |
| 1:47.0 | Michelle Obama gave a highly canned speech that was delivered remotely via Zoom as all such speeches were or if it wasn't |
| 1:56.0 | Zoom it was some kind of remote video software. |
| 1:59.4 | Many kind of subcommittees are being held in the same format roughly as Zoom, which is to say with |
| 2:06.2 | little squares, people kind of sequestered off in their little squares, saying truly insane things. |
| 2:12.8 | I mean the one that was kind of clipped this just today most recently was the |
| 2:17.7 | LGBTQ caucus in which it was insisted that we defund the police that we we abolish ice, that we do all these things. |
| 2:24.4 | Idea is almost as bad for gay people as they are for the black people that they are |
| 2:28.4 | ostensibly supposed to protect and for the people in this country who are notionally under the kind of purview of the Democratic |
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