Cheyenne Lin
In this video essay, Cheyenne Lin discusses Liberal Optimism in the wake of the 2024 U.S. Democratic National Convention. Liberal Optimism is the main rhetorical device of the Democratic Party, as opposed to Republican declinism or doomsday-ism. Instead of Make America Great Again, which implies the U.S. isn’t where it should be, Harris and Walz have ‘when we fight we win’, and pride themselves on this belief that the U.S. is worth fighting for, and that we can make this country work for everyone.
