No. I Didn't Watch

The country’s two major political parties, emerging from their conventions to square off in the general election, are speaking to Americas unrecognizable to each other in voices that sound like a political and ideological role reversal.

For Republicans, the country is a place of near-apocalyptic gloom whose best days are fast receding.

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Chants rose up Thursday night [at the Democratic convention] — “U-S-A! U-S-A! — as John R. Allen, the retired Marine general, thunderously addressed the Democratic convention. Delegates waved American flags in the air and held up signs that formed a sea of red, white and blue. The visceral shift in the parties’ political narratives represents a profound break from the way they have often spoken about the country and themselves.

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Going at least as far back as Reagan, Republicans have prided themselves as being the party of optimism and confidence, leading an exceptional country whose greatness was coded into its DNA.

Going back further, to Franklin D. Roosevelt, it has been the Democrats who have made common cause with the aggrieved and the left behind, who have been criticized for dwelling too much on the nation’s flaws and being squeamish about asserting power internationally.

  WaPo

Hadn't you noticed? The poles have shifted.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.