What Went Down On Night 3 Of The DNC

Not to be the contrarian — OK, TO BE THE CONTRARIAN! — but COVID-19 has made me more marginally more optimistic about how the world might respond to climate change. Amid COVID-19, people have been willing to accept some pretty radical changes to their lifestyles for what’s now going on six months. And many governments (although not really the U.S. federal government) have given the benefit of the doubt to expert guidance. But my priors were quite pessimistic on how people would respond to COVID-19, so the somewhat-patchwork response might look less bad to me by comparison.

This video narrated by a young girl whose Dreamer mother has been deported (they’re a military family, the father voted for Trump) is so affecting. And honestly, these videos from actual Americans are done in an intensely personal, emotional style — it’s really difficult for me to now picture what the Republicans are going to do to compete (as it were) with these videos.

Another video that’s just a total gut punch, about families who have been separated thanks to Trump’s immigration policies. I have to say, this is a really effective way to get across the stakes on a policy-heavy night.