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Is the DNC Stuck in the Past?
'Scandal,' the Clintons, 'Fight Song.' The nostalgia never ends
The one thing viewers know is that the marquee speaker — on Monday, Joe Biden; on Wednesday, Tim Walz — will be pushed past 11 p.m. on the east coast in favor of whatever mass of humanity the Democrats have assembled. There was a long speech from Oprah Winfrey, still decked out in “The Color Purple”-promotional violet she’d worn throughout this past winter’s awards season and surprisingly, for a generationally great communicator, unfocused. Legacy acts sell records, but does any of this — Pink, Oprah, Bill Clinton, “Fight Song” — excite an 18-year-old in Milwaukee, Detroit, Phoenix, or Atlanta deciding whether or not to vote at all?
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