It is Judy Garland versus Vera Lynn. It is the 1939 song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" versus the 1942 hit "The White Cliffs of Dover." It is America in its prewar reverie versus Great Britain in its wartime trial.
This is, for America's two political parties, a bluebird moment.
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