Opinion: E.J. Dionne: Harris’s DNC was a master class in coalition building

It all seems simple and obvious: If you want to win, embrace patriotism, talk incessantly about freedom and be joyfully hopeful. But Kamala Harris’s campaign feels entirely fresh because American politics lost the art of the simple and obvious somewhere along the way. Both come easier to a barrier-breaking politician who has neither the need nor the desire to look dissident or transgressive.

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