Since Democrat Convention Week is a time for generosity, even to past Democratic presidential losers, several media outlets entertained the sour grapes of Alexandra Kerry, daughter of 2004 loser John Kerry. When liberalism loses, never blame liberalism. Blame America for its failure to appreciate nuance and deep thoughts, which is somehow synonymous with liberalism. In an interview with Libby Copeland in Sunday’s Washington Post, meant to publicize Alexandra’s new memoir of the 2004 campaign, out came the complaint:

You also say that your dad had an instinct to “allow for the complexities of the issues,” and that you felt that this kind of got — I don’t know if “twisted” is the right word — twisted in the coverage. I wouldn’t use the word “twisted.” . . . I would say I think that there isn’t time. And I think my dad had a propensity for having longer discussions and probably longer speeches. [Laughs.] . . . I think our world nowadays — and I generalize, it goes beyond politics — has less of an attention span for longer discussions.

The same lament, that America was not ready to negotiate the nuances, also emerged in a supportive chat with Newsweek:

In the book you talk about how harsh the political process is on the losers and how this country is not trained to accept or deal with losing. Why is that, do you think?
I think because we are a very external, performance-based country. There’s just this too-quick need to sum things up and fit them into a box so it’s palatable. The nuance is harder for us to negotiate. Covering politics is like the box-office reports of a movie: they don’t look closely at the losers.