Smithsonian's curators have returned from the conventions with a haul of memorabilia and their observations. In many ways, not much has changed.
“For 200 years, we’ve been doing the same thing, where the party faithful are in a building, and you have to get them fired up and send them home with all the different – sometimes meaningful, sometimes silly – ways you can rally the troops.”
But they think history will also remember a new era of extreme partisanship
https://theconversation.com/smithsonian-237621 #USPolitics
“For 200 years, we’ve been doing the same thing, where the party faithful are in a building, and you have to get them fired up and send them home with all the different – sometimes meaningful, sometimes silly – ways you can rally the troops.”
But they think history will also remember a new era of extreme partisanship
https://theconversation.com/smithsonian-237621 #USPolitics
Signs, props and light-up wristbands − the 2024 political conventions find a home in the Smithsonian collections
The Whigs started holding political conventions in the 1830s − and historians from the Smithsonian who visited the GOP and Democratic conventions this year found the tradition is still very vibrant.The Conversation
