Now I've watched the whole Trump/Biden debate, some more analysis: to Brits the constant interruptions and hyperbole was not a "shitshow" - we reached this level of scratchiness in 2015: it's a feature of neoliberal nationalism not a glitch... 1/
newstatesman.com/world/2020/09/…
2/ Biden's problem is a) that Trump continually plays left arguments back at him - "superpredator" etc b) he psychologically doesn't want to land the hardest blows: he said Trump's a liar and a clown but his deference to the office made him pull the punch...
3/ Yet Biden did look presidential - not that it matters in a partisan head-count election: he made a conscious attempt to speak to Republican voters...
4/ On the Proud Boys controversy (see column), Trump got pushed into a corner - and in addition to handing the Democrats a killer talking point, he was reeling under the pressure... newstatesman.com/world/2020/09/…
5/ I can't gauge the psychological effect on US voters of seeing a President and VP descend to the debating level of Aussie backbench MPs, but it should be salutary: democracy is headed for the trash can if Trump wins. It's v simple. newstatesman.com/world/2020/09/…
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