Please, Change The Conventions

In 2020 the pandemic forced both parties to tear up the playbook. It was time to rewrite it anyway.

Four years ago, the pandemic forced both Presidential campaigns to rethink the format of its nominating conventions. Many of us who have attended and watched these gatherings for decades cheered, and beseeched the parties to never look back—let’s render the stultifying old playbook dead, and charge forward with new, fresh ideas for a 21^st century conven…