Murc’s law achieves escape velocity
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The Editors have spoken:
It is a tragedy that Republicans themselves are not engaged in deeper soul-searching after Thursday’s debate. Mr. Trump’s own performance ought to be regarded as disqualifying. He lied brazenly and repeatedly about his own actions, his record as president and his opponent. He described plans that would harm the American economy, undermine civil liberties and fray America’s relationships with other nations. He refused to promise that he would accept defeat, returning instead to the kind of rhetoric that incited the Jan. 6 attack on Congress.
The Republican Party, however, has been co-opted by Mr. Trump’s ambitions. The burden rests on the Democratic Party to put the interests of the nation above the ambitions of a single man.
Biden’s performance last night was really bad. But throwing out three and a half years of governing, not to mention a major party’s entire primary process, because of a bad night under the TV lights, is raising theater criticism to almost theological status.
And you really couldn’t have a purer expression of the proposition that standards of any kind are only for Democrats to apply to themselves.