At the Democratic convention in Chicago, the empire is ready to strike back at Darth Vader. There has never been an array of galactic political power like that assembled for presidential nominee Kamala Harris: three presidents – Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama – and Hillary Clinton, the first woman nominated for president by a major political party, who won the popular vote in 2016 but was defeated by Donald Trump in the electoral college.
Trump, at the pinnacle, is alone. Ronald Reagan is long dead. Trump piled Reagan’s legacy on the dustbin of history. Neither the last Republican president, George Bush, nor Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence, appeared at Trump’s convention. Trump’s Republican opponents have been turned into sycophants. Trump is counting on his base – 72 million-strong four years ago – to turn out again and stop........