In what was mercifully one of his last major primetime speeches as president, Barack Obama declared to the fawning hordes at the Democratic National Convention that "America is already great." The "America is great" message echoed First Lady Michelle Obama's Monday night speech, in which she lectured, "Don't let anyone ever tell you that this country isn't great."    In speech after speech, Democratic Party elites breathlessly proclaimed how great America is and how misguided Donald Trump is for painting a "dark" vision of America.  Claiming the "America is great" mantle as a way to differentiate from Donald Trump's "America is in decline" message might have been a shrewd political strategy were it not being promulgated by an invariably non-credible messenger: the American left. The left has never held the United States and its core institutions in high regard.  Just the...(Read Full Post)