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Democrats, Don’t Let the GOP Sandbag Healthcare Reform With the Border Crisis
When the 2020 campaign started I was of the mind that it was really okay that the points made on issues in the first Democratic Debate were not clearly drawn. The general election is still over a year away, it really didn’t matter so much that the details were confusing because there are a lot of details. It all started out back in June with everyone just trying to get their minds around all these — by and large — good candidates. Mostly fundamentally decent people.
I’ve already written about the most significant points in the first debate when Kamala Harris showed her considerable prosecutorial skill, then had to deal with disingenuous and pathetic efforts— much of which I did and still do believe are deeply rooted in race and gender bias— to discredit her.
Or in the second debate when Julian Castro had some good moments demonstrating his particular ability to best fellow Texan, Beto O’Rourke. Never mind that strange interjection by Tulsi Gabbard — clearly trying to shamelessly undermine Harris with flagrant disinformation — that riled Gabbard’s followers in the crowd into a frothing mob, but was pretty decisively discredited in days following the debate, mostly by Gabbard herself. That gal just can’t get in front of a camera without saying something truly nutty.
