2 days after the presidential debate in Cleveland, the media still can't get its collective head around the worst performance in this format since it became a thing in the 1960 race between Kennedy and Nixon. Most commentators have seized on tRump's refusal to denounce white supremacy in general and the Proud Boys in particular and are running with stories on the White House refusal to make a clear call for the far right to stand down or face legal consequences.
I think the entirety of the debate should be covered, especially from the vantage point of our friends and adversaries around the world. Most thinking people outside the country were genuinely horrified by Cheetolini's sociopathic performance.
What does it mean when one party in a two party system has given up all pretense of following democratic norms? The only way to bring what is left of the Republican party back from the dark side is an electoral defeat of catastrophic proportions. Virtually every GOPer who has enabled the sickness needs to be defeated. I'm looking at you, Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham. The racism and misogyny need to be called out and the structural features which allowed minority rule must be changed. It all starts with our votes on November 3 or sooner.
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