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The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.

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William Greider
Age: 83 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 6
Died: 2019
Died: December 25
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