Democrats may no longer be running with President Joe Biden, a candidate whose raison d’etre for the twilight of his political career was to defeat Trump. But their convention is laying bare the party’s calculation that excoriating the Republican standard-bearer is a strategy worth sticking with.

Former President Barack Obama returned to his adopted hometown to keynote the second night of the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, offering an aspirational goal for the county to elect Kamala Harris and reject “four more years of bluster and bumbling and chaos” if Donald Trump is returned to the White House.

Only a politician as focused and high-minded as Barack Obama can make a joke about Donald Trump’s anatomy and it’s the other guy that looks crass. That’s what happened tonight at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago as the 44th President of the Untied States addressed a fired up United Center on why the insecure