Chuck Darwin<p>This week, at the Democratic National Convention, the speeches of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Michelle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Michelle</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obama</span></a> and the Second Gentleman <a href="https://c.im/tags/Doug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Doug</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Emhoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Emhoff</span></a> (and maybe <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lil</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jon</span></a>’s, if you want to call that a speech) stood out.</p><p>But there was one speech, in particular, that struck me: 🔥The sermon-like words of Sen. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Raphael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Raphael</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Warnock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Warnock</span></a> (D-Ga.).</p><p>Warnock has served as senior pastor at Atlanta’s historic <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ebenezer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ebenezer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Baptist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Baptist</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Church</span></a> for nearly 20 years. <br>His election on January 5, 2021 was one of two pivotal, and highly covered, Senate races in Georgia. </p><p>That made him a national figure, of sorts. But not exactly a household name. If you don’t know Warnock well, it’s worth remembering he is a pastor who invokes his Christianity as a foundation of his politics.</p><p>⭐️He clearly brings that power to the secular pulpit in his speech on the first night of the DNC, telling of the need to heal a nation that has long been broken. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Michelle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Michelle</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obama</span></a> might have done a bit of call-and-response. </p><p>But it is hard to imagine anyone else pulling off calling Donald Trump a “<a href="https://c.im/tags/plague" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plague</span></a>,” as Warnock does, with such heft.<br><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/raphael-warnock-dnc-speech/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">motherjones.com/politics/2024/</span><span class="invisible">08/raphael-warnock-dnc-speech/</span></a></p>