Poor Melania Trump, trounced in the media because her RNC speech had a few lifted lines from a Michelle Obama speech.
Yet, when it came to diversity, they were lines I would have liked to have heard from her husband in his acceptance speech last week.
I call it the “litany of diversity,” where a politician ensures in a blunt, no-nonsense list that his entire audience is included in his vision, his “plans.”
But it was only the maligned Melania, in her accented voice, who listed off what has become an obligatory roll call in any modern political speech.
“Donald intends to represent all people, not just some of the people,” Melania said. “That includes Christians, and Jews, and Muslims. It includes Hispanics, and African Americans and Asians, and the poor and the middle class.”
Present and accounted for.
It doesn’t mean the candidate doesn’t care about the rest of us. But it takes away any sense of ambiguity.
