After having sat through some good speeches and several bad ones, and, needless to add, worse music, the crowd was on its feet and screaming by the time Hillary Clinton began to quote Harriet Tubman. “If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going…”
But, as always with Hillary, it is easy to fall into the trap of ambivalence and contradiction: the piece of advice in the throats of twenty thousand inside the Pepsi Center tonight — keep going! — was that the advice for the nominee, or more for her own loyal and embittered cadre?
(Journalist, author and academic Amitava Kumar is professor of English at Vassar College, New York)
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