Thursday’s debate was a reminder that the equivocating core of the party has not yet been vanquished
Thursday’s debate was difficult to get through, kind of like watching season five of a sitcom you used to like. Scenes are dragging on, characters you came to love have grown tiresome, but still you keep tuning in.
Like sitcom characters, the Democratic candidates tried to awkwardly slot in their favorite punchlines: Kamala Harris blasted Trump looking for a meme-able moment (“you can go back to watching Fox News”), Beto started talking unprompted in Spanish, Bernie threw in a “I wrote the damn bill!” for good measure.
Through it all, I started to think about how other countries did their elections. The longest election campaign in Canadian history lasted 74 days. The French can’t be bothered to deal with this stuff for more than 14. Yet our series never seems to end, no matter how bad it gets.
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