‘Do something.” That was one of the refrains of the recent Democratic convention. It was a brilliant emotional play for votes — many of the speakers clearly got a memo to promise to alleviate the anxiety of the age and our lives. It likely had a resonance that no policy proposal would.
Michelle Obama excelled on this front. You don’t have to agree with her politics to acknowledge that she tapped into something real in the culture. It didn’t start with Covid, but the pandemic certainly didn’t make things any better: People are lonely and scared and anxious. And she spoke to that.
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