Something extraordinary happened this week. After an extended campaign in which the GOP nominee has consistently told Americans that our country is a trash heap, Democrats became the party of America. And no, not the Ward and June Cleaver America of yesteryear that Donnie Doom keeps promising to restore; the America of tomorrow, as rich and textured as the reaches of our infinite roots around the globe. At the DNC, the notion that America is exceptional lept from the stage repeatedly. “Don’t let anyone ever tell you that this country isn’t great,” Michelle Obama warned, “Because this, right now, is the greatest country on earth.” An impassioned Joe Biden charged, "We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line!