The Democratic Zoomvention is nearly complete. Cutting away all the pageantry typical of a party convention has done a great deal to show how sad the whole affair is. Cockburn is very sad for having watched it.

Trotting out members of the opposing party to endorse the candidate is a long-running convention tradition, and with Donald Trump having alienated so many DC Republicans in his first term, the 2020 DNC is unsurprisingly no exception.