I find the contrast in the two conventions to be fascinating.
Neither ran all that smoothly but democracy is a messy business.
The republican convention featured serious people confronting serious issues, eg terrorism, immigration, domestic rioting and turmoil, attacks on police.
By contrast, the democrats are in a parallel universe. They featured a collection of representatives of the racial grievance industry, plus the usual Hollywood and entertainment airheads. Their signature moment was to honor the mothers of thugs killed while fighting the police. The media, which seem to demand that Trump disavow someone or some random tweet hourly, had no interest in connecting the dots between BLM anti police demagoguery and the murders of police officers. Likewise, horrific terror attacks in Europe were ignored.
The democrats' message was basically BLM is right, we need open borders and immediate amnesty, and anyone who disagrees is a racist bigot, particularly Trump.
The media's take was the republicans were "dark" and appealed to "hate" and "fear." The democrats' nonstop demonization of Trump was good clean fun, plus something the voters need to hear.
I don't really understand the democrats' approach. Surely they have the black vote locked up. Why all the pandering? Did Obama demand it or is it just reflexive for them now? Wouldn't it have been smarter to try to broaden their appeal?
The silver lining is that both party establishments and the media have pretty much been dead wrong the entire election season and have badly misread the mood of the voters.