“The country’s two major political parties, emerging from their conventions to square off in the general election, are speaking to Americas unrecognizable to each other in voices that sound like a political and ideological role reversal,” the Washington Post reports.
“For Republicans, the country is a place of near-apocalyptic gloom whose best days are fast receding.”
“The nation of the Democrats who met here this week to nominate former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, is a vibrant and diverse place.”


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