Democrats should resist the temptation to seek a comeuppance for “angry white guys” this November.
Robert David Sullivan
Robert David Sullivan is the production editor at America magazine. From 2013 to 2016 he wrote a political column called (Un)Conventional Wisdom.
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Political conventions aren’t as smart as you remember
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