The final night of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) saw highs, lows, and abundant examples of party propagandizing. Here are some takeaways from Night Four:

Retired four-star Gen. John Allen was flanked by military officials as he offered one of most neoconservative speeches of the evening, promising “our enemies” that “we will pursue you as only Americans can.”

“To those acting against peace, acting against civilization and the world order, we will oppose you,” Allen said. “And to our enemies, we will pursue you as only America can. You will fear us. And to ISIS and others, we will defeat you.”

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The general’s aggressive speech “did not merely emphasize Clinton’s competence and experience,” as Vox points out: “It touted her in terms that were, frankly, neoconservative in tone.”

And when anti-war protesters began chanting “No More War!” in response to the war-mongering rhetoric, resounding “USA! USA! USA!” cheers rose from the stands to drown out the activists. TV cameras panned to those parts of the crowd chanting “USA!” and focused on people waving massive American flags, avoiding any footage of the peace-minded demonstrators.

The Nation‘s D.D. Guttenplan expressed the dismay felt by many progressives when Allen’s promises of war were met with flag-waving and nationalistic cheers:

Indeed, Clinton supporters’ counter-chants were hardly spontaneous, journalist Matt Yglesias revealed, as he tweeted a screenshot of Clinton delegates’ instructions to drown out “Sanders folks” throughout the night:

Even some right-wing observers were surprised to witness such a nationalistic display at a Democratic Party convention:

The evening veered rightward again when it featured two life-long Republicans, former Ronald Reagan speechwriter Doug Elmets and Jennifer Pierotti Lim of “Republican Women for Hillary,” who both advanced the conservative case for Hillary Clinton and against Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Elmets spent much of his speech praising America’s progenitor of neoliberalism, contrasting Reagan’s legacy with Trump’s right-wing nationalism.

“I haven’t just voted Republican. I worked in President Reagan’s White House,” Elmets said. “I recently led an effort to place a statue of Ronald Reagan in California’s capitol. I’m here tonight to say: I knew Ronald Reagan; I worked for Ronald Reagan. Donald Trump, you are no Ronald Reagan.”

“If you, like I do, believe loyalty to our country is more important than loyalty to party,” Elmets concluded, “if you want a president with a good judgment, a steady hand and the temperament to represent our nation to the world and our children—I ask you to join me in voting for Hillary Clinton.”

Lim was also full of praise for the Democratic candidate: “I’ve voted Republican my entire life,” she said. “I believe in the bedrock values of the Republican Party: liberty, equality, and the idea that there are individual rights that cannot be taken away. These are values to be proud of. And because the Republican party has abandoned those values this year, this Republican is voting for Hillary Clinton.”

Indeed, many Republican voters on Twitter were somewhat aghast when they recognized rhetoric at the DNC as what was once the Republican Party line:

‘Moral defibrillators’

But it wasn’t all bad.

Rev. William Barber II, architect of the Moral Monday movement and president of the North Carolina NAACP, delivered a speech at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night that the Washington Post described as “just about the most engaging version of everything that every other speaker touched on over the course of the four day event.”

Barber’s “soaring speech was a call to action,” Jack Holmes wrote at Esquire, “and a declaration that it was inaction on a range of issues—gun violence, the deteriorating relationships between police and communities of color, the climate—that had led to a kind of national cardiac arrest.”

Indeed, the preacher called on Democrats—in the hall and around the country—”to be the moral defibrillators of our time.”

“We must shock this nation and fight for justice for all,” he said. “We can’t give up on the heart of our democracy. Not now. Not ever.”

Some observers noted that during a convention where Palestinian rights were largely ignored, Barber refused to shy away.

“When we love the Jewish child and the Palestinian child…we are reviving the heart of our democracy,” he said. “Jesus, a brown-skinned Palestinian Jew, called us to preach good news to the poor, the broken and the bruised and all those who are made to feel unaccepted.”

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‘You have sacrificed nothing’

American Muslim Khizr Khan also brought down the house Thursday night, directing a scathing critique at Donald Trump: “You have sacrificed nothing and no one.”