The genres of democracy

The most acute intrigue in the history of the current democratic convention was revealed before its beginning. The publication of electronic letters stolen from the Democrats was supposed to blow up the congress and quarrel supporters of Bernie Sanders with adherents of Hillary Clinton , who did not forgive a friend for a friend. The calculation, apparently, was to persuade the offended “Berners” if you did not join Trump’s camp, then wait for the election of the house.

It is unlikely, however, something will come of it. The Russian trace , about which the American authorities speak more with more certainty, compromises not so much Hillary as Trump. Each candidate is responsible for his fans, and voters may not like the idea to send the applicant to the White House, for whom Putin is so warmly rooted. In America, such candidates are called “Manchu” (according to the famous political thriller ). Perhaps the most instructive in all this episode is the next failure of the secret services of Moscow, which most difficult to keep their service a secret. Malaysian Boeing, Olympic doping, stolen correspondence - every time a shameful truth becomes publicly accessible and visual.

One way or another, the detective preamble did not change the course of the congress, but only added genre diversity to him - from a thriller to a female novel and family melodrama. But it all started with a fierce of political drama. On the first day, every mention of the Hillary name was found by a whistle and a clatter. Even Sanders could not calm his angry supporters. In order not to enrage them, he changed the subject. Passing where the candidate’s name is possible, Sanders pressed the platform.

“It is important that no one will live in the White House, and that he, or in this case, will do there,” he said, insisting that America should become the way the Democratic Party dreams of.

What does it mean can be explained by the words of Michelle Obama.

“Every morning,” she said from the rostrum, “I wake up in the White House, which was built by slaves.”

If the Republicans, ”said the speakers,“ see the collapsed country, then we are fixed

Such a trajectory of American history cannot but inspire the optimism with which the democratic convention was strikingly different from the congress of their rivals.

“If the Republicans,” said the speakers, “see the collapsed country, then we are fixed.”

The apotheosis of the congress was the official nomination of Hillary to applicants. Although there was nothing unexpected in this, the monotonous and solemn ritual of voting dictated the historical significance of the moment: for the first time in the history of the country, a woman became a candidate for president.

“It doesn’t even matter which one,” those 70 percent of voters who still do not trust her gloom gloomily.

To cope with this ailment - a shortage of charisma - the organizers of the congress entrusted Bill Clinton. The trump cards of the Democrats, he took hoarse, like Leonard Cohen’s, in a whisper that others could not be a scream.

“We have already forgotten,” said one of the observers, “that Bill Clinton is not only the best speaker of his generation, but also an excellent storyteller.” It was not for nothing that his speech began like Harper Lee: honestly, simply and on business.

Despite the humor, lyrical digressions, self -irony and sincerity of tone, Clinton clearly, although imperceptibly led his line. In an effort to refute the opinion that his wife is a political robot, he recalled her with a flirty girl, a troublesome mother, a proud grandmother and an eight who always found a job and studied him to subtlety. Turning on the charm of the most pretty president of the six in which I lived in America, Clinton achieved his own.

But as for Hillary, the Convention could not dispel doubts among many. Talking about the scatter and staggering at the congress, the leaders of the Democratic Party said that it is not in vain that it is called: democracy is a noisy business that is always with difficulty, and often with torment connects consonants with the obstinate.

“Well,” the reporter did not lag behind, “will unite the Democratic Party in the elections?”

- Not what, and who: Trump.

Alexander Genis-New York writer and publicist, author and host of the Radio Liberty program "American Hour-over barriers"

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