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Amy Davidson on Political Conventions Gone Wrong

Episode Summary

<p><span>It looks like the Republican Convention won’t be contested, but there hasn’t been a more divisive one in living memory—and the same may be true of the Democratic Convention. </span><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/amy-davidson">Amy Davidson</a><span>, a staff writer who covers politics for </span><em>The New Yorker</em><span>, has a history lesson about what happens when a party starts coming apart in public.</span></p>

Episode Notes

It looks like the Republican Convention won’t be contested, but there hasn’t been a more divisive one in living memory—and the same may be true of the Democratic Convention. Amy Davidson, a staff writer who covers politics for The New Yorker, has a history lesson about what happens when a party starts coming apart in public.