In the music industry, nostalgia acts are valuable properties, regularly turning up in top spots on lists of the most lucrative concert tours. It’s the same in our national politics. President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” is nothing but a blast from the past — a mean, racist past when women and minorities were second-class citizens and corporations could pollute the environment with impunity.
Now Democrats are facing a choice: Should they turn to a kinder, gentler version of nostalgia to defeat Trump?
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s speech at his Saturday campaign rally was in many ways a paean to days gone by.