2020 US election - It Came from Washington DC

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... but I'm going to content myself with after-action reports tomorrow.  ...

Fox News's Bret Baier: "Maybe America lost".

MSNBC's James Carville: "It was not a very good night for American democracy at all."

CBC's Alexander Panetta: Not a very good night for America

It was a far cry from the first televised presidential debate in 1960.

In that one, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon spoke in complex and complete sentences; avoided interrupting each other; and began with an exchange on the need to become a fairer and more racially equal country that shines its example unto the free world.

Oh, and the incumbent (a) was called for interrupting 53 times, and (b) told a specific far-right white-supremacist group known for bringing weapons to peaceful protests to "stand back and stand by", showing on national live TV that he's quite willing to use force to retain power. (A sane President would have told them to stand down.)