The 2024 DNC: All Vibes, Little Substance
The DNC revealed a Democratic Party still in love with the Obamas. The fantasy is that Kamala Harris will be a reboot. Brat summer is cooling — are you ready for an Obama autumn, heavy on feeling good and light on political substance?
Former president Barack Obama speaks during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Tuesday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
If the 2024 election theme is “vibes,” then the atmosphere at the Democratic National Convention is pure vibe-flation.
Between Lil Jon’s decade-old party anthem and the giddy rhetorical toasts to the political partnership of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, the DNC floor feels like the world’s most expensive wedding reception. It’s been a three-day blue-hued bender with influencers sipping “Walz on the Beach” cocktails at “Hotties for Harris” events while political speakers alternate between sassy oh-no-he-didn’t jokes about Donald Trump and J. D. Vance and sappy odes to vague virtues (especially “joy,” the word of the moment).
But is barely nudging past Donald Trump in the polls in August really worth getting this crunk?
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