#The RNC’s aspirational message couldn’t be more different from Dems’ radicalism

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Donald Trump speaks with essential workers at the White House.
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The Republican National Convention is underway, and it ­offers a hopeful, pro-American agenda that stands in stark contrast to the radicalism that radiated out of the Democratic National Convention last week.

The Democrats’ convention ­revealed a disturbing truth about the party’s November ticket. While Joe Biden’s name is inscribed there as a sort of nod to a moderate past, it is the likes of Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who are really on the ballot this November.

Time and again, Biden, the supposed moderate, has proved willing to embrace the radical leftists who now control his party. His electoral platform is really a Biden-Sanders Unity platform. It reflects the hard left’s top policy priorities, including government-controlled health care, the Green New Deal and a climate agenda that would kill millions of American jobs and dull America’s economic and energy edge.

While the platform doesn’t explicitly endorse Medicare for All, it calls for the creation of a “public-option plan” overseen by the government. It was no accident that Sanders — one of the ­architects of Medicare for All — was prominently featured on the opening night of the Democrats’ convention.

Meanwhile, as nihilistic rioters sow disorder in cities across the United States, Biden and the Democrats said not a word in condemnation. As violent crime spikes in blue states and cities, victimizing mostly poor people of color, Biden and the Democrats offered no solutions besides the rhetoric of racial pandering. Worse, they demonized the law enforcers who keep us safe.

It’s important to judge Biden by the people he surrounds himself with. At every step of this campaign, he has kowtowed to the most radical voices in his party.

Traditionally, when a candidate wins a party nomination, his party will rally around his winning campaign primary platform. In 2020, however, Biden won the nomination and somehow managed to make more concessions than the rest of the losing field, proving how weak and malleable a leader he is.

Meanwhile, President Trump’s 2020 Republican National Convention honors the great American spirit — made manifest in the stories of real American people — and highlights how the president has promoted the good of American communities, not least forgotten working-class people of all ­races. People who had lost jobs and hope to bad trade deals — deals that Biden and the failed establishment he represents championed at every step.

While the DNC trotted out Hollywood celebrities and the old Washington political establishment to bash America and sow division, the RNC is celebrating hardworking Americans who make America great.

The president’s achievements, plus his vision for a second term, will be on full display throughout the week. The president’s pro-growth, pro-jobs economic agenda ushered in the strongest labor market in history and helped raise incomes for working families. His policies supercharged the economy before the global pandemic artificially shut it down.

Trump is already leading America’s recovery out of the pandemic; without his leadership, the comeback will falter.

The economy has added back 9.5 million jobs over the past three months, and the unemployment rate has dropped 4.5 percent during that period. Retail sales rose in July and are now above pre-pandemic levels.

The president is delivering on promises made during his first-term campaign, and he is ready to do it again. Where Biden and the Democrats failed to restore America’s greatness — and didn’t even bother to notice how low we had fallen — Trump has succeeded.

Fair-minded observers of the two conventions can’t miss the difference: The Republican National Convention is aspirational, inspirational and celebrates the greatness of this country, the goodness of its people. Biden’s convention, meanwhile, saw a frail opportunist hand over the keys to his party to its worst elements.

Steve Cortes is senior adviser to President Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. Twitter: @CortesSteve