Day 4: Baking the new American Pie — Dems serve up freedom with a scoop of inclusivity

THE ANNOUNCED THEME of the DNC night 3 was “Freedom,” and speaker after speaker did hammer home the freedom threatened by the MAGA/Trump agenda — the “real freedom,” as Josh Shapiro put it, to love whom you choose, worship how you choose, and build a family as you choose.

But in the parade of people across the DNC stage, the words chosen, the emotions displayed, there was also a more visceral argument: that an inclusive, multi-racial democracy is as American as apple pie. Normal. Friendly. Respectful. Neighbors helping neighbors. “Commonsense, not nonsense,” Oprah said. And, damn, it just feels so, so good.