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Welcome to the Com amar

today is Wednesday August 26 2020. I am John Poghortz the editor of

commentary. A greenwald is out this week with us today special guest

Washington commentary columnist A E I scholar founding editor of the

Washington Freebeek and Matthew Kahnetti. Hi, Matt. Hi, John. Thanks for

having me. And as ever, senior writer Christine Rosen,

high Christine. Hi, John. And associate editor, nor Rothman,

high Noah. Hi, John. Okay, Matt, night two of the Republican

convention and you wrote a a connoingly fast column put up about

three seconds after the convention gabbled to a close declaring

it revenge of the normies, explain what you were what you meant

by that. Well, one reason I was able to get the column up there

I was struck early on in the evening by just the variety of

everyday people who were speaking to the convention and whether

it was the main lobster men or the Wisconsin dairy farmer or the

police officer who adopted the baby of a opioid addict, much less

the immigrants who were naturalized live on television from the

White House. These speeches from regular Americans were to me

more significant in many ways than the kind of rehearsed political

speeches from the convention because what they showed was I think

aside of America, we haven't really seen in the last few months,

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