Democrats use shared disdain of Trump to overcome differences

It fell to comedienne Sarah Silverman to let the air out of a WikiLeaks balloon at the DNC convention last night in Philadelphia.

When she looked out upon her fellow Bernie Sanders supporters and told them, “You’re being ridiculous,” the boos inside the Wells Fargo Center were more than drowned out by laughter and applause.

Of course there was discord at the DNC yesterday. After all, we are talking about Democrats, who by definition are not all old, white, angry, afraid and stupid.

After Debbie Wasserman Schultz paid the price and was dispatched early in the day, life and politics went on. And the more the document dump was dissected, and its alleged Russian-based hacking was evaluated, the more we heard about Vladimir Putin being with the orange-haired guy who won the Republican nomination.

If it was Donald Trump who was supposed to benefit from those 20,000 hacked emails, then it was also Donald Trump who brought the Democratic convention together last night in its contempt for him.

The first few words out of Liz Warren’s mouth last night was the acknowledgement that “Bernie Sanders reminds us of what Democrats fight for everyday.”

Liz Warren made it clear that Trump never lifted a finger to fight against the “rigged system” he’s always yapping about, one she said has always benefitted him over working people.

“Donald Trump knows the American people are angry,” Warren said, “a fact so obvious he can see it from the top of his Trump Tower. … He has no plans to make anything great except for people like himself.” Ain’t that the truth. Minnesota Sen. Keith Ellison, a fervent Bernie backer, introduced his candidate by asking the crowd to raise their voices to a great man who worked to make America even greater.

Sanders did not launch an attack on the DNC or the emails that never came close to dismissing him. As he’s done so often in the past, the Vermont senator stressed that the election was not about anything the media gets overheated about.

When he told the crowd that Hillary Clinton must become the president of the United States, the applause was deafening and sustained.

Bernie made it clear that the election was about the kind of people that Donald Trump never talks about, people who need their minimum wage raised to a living wage.

The irascible old man who launched a political revolution became Hillary Clinton’s most fervent supporter. By the end of the night, the only outrage over WikiLeaks could be found in a gold-plated penthouse high above Fifth Avenue.