CHICAGO — "We are a party of the future, we're not a party of the past," Democratic Party Chairman Jaime Harrison proclaimed during his remarks to the sparse yet lively crowd of the Black Caucus meeting in Chicago's McCormick Place Convention Center Wednesday.
As he mused about a future for the United States led by Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, Harrison concluded his speech with a forward-looking message that sought to strike a moving contrast with the past-centric lens of Republican nominee Donald Trump's "make America great again" slogan. But the theme of Harrison's morning speech and the undercurrent of the convention's tone suggested the past wasn't so far removed from the future he and others spoke of.
