It’s actually more relevant because we have even MORE voters who are heavily invested in the identity politics thing.
You simply cannot compare structured collegiate debate with political debate. Collegiate debate (and I did both high school and college forensics) involves pretty strict scoring rules. Political debate is ALL about image.
There’s a reason why JFK trounced Nixon in the 1960 debate with people who watched on TV, while Nixon won with people who listened on the radio. That still applies and is relevant today. Nixon could certainly console himself, albiet as a private citizen, that he’d really won that debate on points.
No. This “concern” thing has to stop. The propriety of debate wasn’t observed with Biden and Ryan, was it? It has never been observed by Democrats, period.
We are in an all-out ideological war with these would-be tyrants and the very last thing we need to do is play nice and follow the rules.
Screw nice.