PHILADELPHIA — Inside the Wells Fargo arena a little after 11 p.m., Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic presidential nomination. Outside, her opponents’ supporters called for her arrest.
Hundreds of anti-Clinton protesters gathered as close as they could get to the arena entrance on Thursday night. As was the case for the previous three days of the convention, they chanted, waved signs, bickered amongst themselves about disruptive anarcho-syndicalist infiltrators, and plotted their exit from the Democratic party. Some, including Philadelphia native Drew Geliebter (who helped burn an American flag a few minutes after Clinton’s acceptance speech wrapped), were never going to vote for a Democrat anyway. But others were, and say Clinton and the Democratic National Committee robbed Bernie Sanders of the election.
At one point, dozens of them marched down a road parallel to the fence that enclosed the Wells Fargo Center chanting, “Hillary Clinton, you are under arrest!”
It’s above dispute: The Democratic convention drew way more rancor—way, way, way more rancor—than the Republican convention. And that points to a larger problem sneaking up on the party: the percolating tension between moderate partisans comfortable with incrementalism and fiery progressives antsy for revolution. Donald Trump’s antics and #NeverTrump’s anemic counterrevolutionary efforts have kept Republican rifts in the forefront for the last year. But the faultlines on the left sometimes look just as deep—and that was certainly the case at the DNC.
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