This is not your mother’s Democratic Party 

They say that nature abhors a vacuum. Apparently politics does too.  

As MAGA Republicans have abandoned the pragmatic center, Democrats have occupied it. And the Democrats’ convention in Chicago — especially the final day — sealed the deal. 

The first striking thing about the convention is how patriotic it was. Not blood-and-soil apocalyptic patriotic, but Fourth of July, proud-to-be-an-American patriotic, filled with waving flags, chants of USA! USA!, and tributes to “the...