Michelle Obama articulated something Democrats have been afraid to say

“Something wonderfully magical is in the air, isn’t it?” former first lady Michelle Obama said in her speech at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday. “A familiar feeling that’s been buried too deep for too long.”

“You know what I’m talking about? It’s the contagious power of hope!” she said, adding: “America, hope is making a comeback.”

The rhetoric harkened back to Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign in 2008 — when Democrats ran on hope and change.

But when you think about it, it’s kind of brutal toward Kamala Harris’s predecessor as the presumptive Democratic nominee. Michelle Obama was quite clearly implying that the party, and perhaps the country, had lost hope under Joe Biden, and that it took Harris to bring that hope back.