ABC News reporter Averi Harper attended the Republican midterm convention Wednesday night and appeared troubled by what she heard.

Her concern was not over open borders, rising crime, or socialist candidates, but that Republicans were describing Democrats as radical leftists.

For millions of ordinary Americans watching the Democratic Party race toward socialism, the response is simple: “Yeah.” And?

Harper also worried that convention speakers were using the rise of progressive candidates to characterize the entire Democratic Party.

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Apparently, noticing the obvious direction of a political organization now counts as unfair generalization inside the establishment media bubble.

The complaint would be more convincing if Democrats were not openly embracing socialist policies, radical cultural ideas, and lax border enforcement.

Republicans did not invent these positions in a campaign laboratory, since Democratic politicians routinely promote them before cheering crowds.

Harper said many speakers “are calling the” Democratic Party “radical and leftist,” with many “speaking to the rise of progressive and democratic socialist candidates that we’ve seen in places across the country,” while “painting the entire party with a broad brush.”

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That broad brush complaint is especially rich coming from an ABC News journalist.

ABC is also home to The View, where Republican voters, President Trump, and conservative Americans are regularly portrayed with all the subtlety of a campaign commercial written by Democratic operatives.

Harper continued, “They’ve also spoken about issues pertaining to the border, issues pertaining to public safety, the notion of fighting for freedom, and patriotism have been among the themes that we’ve heard most often from the stage tonight.”

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Those themes are hardly mysterious or extreme.

Border security, safe neighborhoods, individual liberty, and patriotism remain popular with Americans who do not spend their days trapped inside elite newsrooms or fashionable political circles.

The more revealing part of the report was Harper’s apparent discomfort with Republicans directly defining their political opponents.

Democrats and their media allies have spent years labeling Republicans, Trump supporters, parents, and traditional Americans with every ugly description available.

For a decade, much of the corporate press has treated President Trump and the Republican Party as targets rather than subjects.

Reporters who barely blink at sweeping attacks on conservatives suddenly discover journalistic restraint when Democrats are accurately described as moving sharply left.

Republicans at the convention highlighted progressive and democratic socialist candidates because those candidates increasingly influence the party’s priorities.

From government spending to public safety and immigration, the Democratic agenda has repeatedly drifted away from the concerns of working Americans.

Democratic candidates themselves have made this case easier by campaigning on ideas once confined to the party’s activist fringe.

Republicans are simply connecting those policies to the politicians promoting them, which is precisely what an opposition party is supposed to do during an election.

The convention also gave Republicans a national platform to emphasize freedom and patriotism without filtering their message through hostile media gatekeepers.

That was a smart political move, and the predictable newsroom frustration only demonstrates how effectively the message landed.

Liberal commentators will likely spend days objecting to the language, presentation, and speakers instead of addressing the substance.

They would rather police Republican adjectives than explain why Democratic officials keep embracing policies that voters recognize as radical.

The press can complain about broad brushes, but its own coverage of Trump and conservatives has been relentlessly broad for years.

Americans have watched one sided reporting, selective outrage, and obvious partisan framing become routine features of supposedly objective journalism.

The Republican event succeeded because it forced the contrast into plain view.

Conservatives spoke about secure borders, public safety, freedom, and love of country, while ABC worried that Democrats were being called leftists after years of acting exactly like leftists.

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