Debate over, reality sets in, and we move forward to elect Biden to four more years.

[lees1975]

2. When this happens...

The debate temporarily shifted the focus from Trump's felony convictions and looming sentencing. For what its worth, it was horrible timing because it gave him a chance to spout his campaign talking points to an audience on national television before his sentencing, and it took the focus off his legal troubles. It almost looks like CNN planned it to do just that, change the content of the news cycle and what people are talking about. The emphasis in news media reporting will shift back to those convictions and the approaching sentencing.

What happens then? Are we going to hear all of the same kind of caterwauling, lip flapping and "disarray" from Republicans who are facing this disaster, and that is exactly what it is, and the calls for Trump to step down, if it turns out he is headed to prison, or to some kind of in-house confinement that keeps him off the campaign trail, and gives Democrats a huge boost by the continuous ability to attack the GOP on its "law and order" stance? Or will there still be those who don't have any sense of the situation at all fuming over the debate and demanding Biden step down because he is too old?

I mourn the death of common sense and critical thinking in American politics. It affects all sides.