The next two debates are unlikely to improve on Tuesday night’s travesty, but Joe Biden still has something to gain by showing up. frankrichny writes Debates2020
An affair to forget. Photo: Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images Most weeks, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich speaks with contributor Alex Carp about the biggest stories in politics and culture. Today, last night’s presidential debate.
But Biden must show up regardless because his brand is to respect institutions and reform them from within, and hard as it may be to imagine, the next two debates are going to be more self-immolating for Trump than the first. It’s the incumbent who has the most to gain from shutting down the rest of the debate schedule, not Biden.
The bipartisan consensus that emerged overnight was that there was no winner, and that America was the loser. The latter judgment is true, for once again an American president had soiled a political norm and once again he had provided propaganda fodder for all American foes eager to portray the United States as a corrupt sham rather than a stable democracy. But there was a winner of sorts: Biden.
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