We don’t need this former president, we need an urgent message about the importance of voting.
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I regret to inform you that former President Bill Clinton is slated to speak tonight at the Democratic National Convention. It’s easy enough to imagine a political reality where Clinton speaking in some capacity made sense; we had such a world as recently as a few years ago. But we don’t anymore. It is 2020. We are bruised from old intraparty battles, deep in a slow-motion election crisis, economically ravaged, and in a pandemic. The conventional wisdom won’t do.
But even granting the low viewership we can expect for this unusual DNC, these time slots are valuable, especially during this acute a crisis. This is no time for boilerplate puffery—though given that he is slotted to speak about “leading from the Oval Office” alongside descendants of John F. Kennedy and Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, puffery is likely.* But even when it comes to substance, we have already heard all Bill Clinton has to say. His message has not improved with time.
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