Now it’s the Democrats’ turn to have a convention, beginning today and lasting through Thursday. Here are some things to watch for:
(1) Both the Republicans and the Democratic contests featured an insurgent arrayed against the party establishment. In the Republican case, the insurgent won. In the Democratic case, the party establishment beat down the insurgent. But his followers are not happy. Though socialist Bernie Sanders has endorsed Hillary Clinton, lots of Democrats on the left are bitter about her victory. They don’t like her moderate vice presidential pick Tim Kaine. And they sure don’t like the revelations in those hacked e-mails about how the Democratic National Committee undermined Sanders to anoint Clinton. (See post below.) At the convention, will the left rally to Clinton’s banner after all? Or what will they do?