Khan demanded to know whether Trump had ever even read the Constitution and then whipped out his own pocket version, offering to lend it to Trump.

You’ve got a lot of things to honor and celebrate there at once: founding documents, military service, religious pluralism, immigration. It was a moment designed to appeal to the left and the right — at least, the principled parts of the right that truly care about religious freedom and not just Christian special pleading — all at once.

In some ways, this was the most left-wing Democratic convention of my lifetime. A goal of the convention was to convince leftists that Clinton is far enough left to earn their vote. Most of the Monday lineup was a celebration of Bernie Sanders and his movement, with lots of bragging about how many of Sanders’ ideas got into the platform, pushing the party leftward.

But the appeals to the center and the far left were not a contradiction. The convention sent the message that Clinton is the candidate for liberals and moderates and leftists and conservatives who feel horrified by Donald Trump, because that is what she is.