Thread by @baseballcrank

Steyer compares Trump to the Holocaust.

Steyer bragging about leading Democrats into this blind alley.

Buttigieg makes clear that nobody on this stage will go after Biden over Hunter and Burisma.

Please clap for Vindman

Frankly, the Democrats are fools not to nominate Klobuchar.

Bernie dismisses Hillary as looking backwards.

Bernie understands practical politics better than he understands elementary economics.

Buttigieg asked if he'd kill Soleimani, says no (if not in so many words). Hugs the Iran nuclear deal. Goes to the Kerry move of justifying this nonsense with his service.

Buttigieg is asked again, waffles.

Biden says he would not have killed Soleimani. Unstated: he told Obama not to get bin Laden.

Bernie would also not get Soleimani, calls it assassination. Ignores that Soleimani was on foreign soil leading a hostile military force.

Warren asked again about her ignore-the-generals line. Tries to dig out.

Warren asks what troops in Afghanistan have brought us, while no more Manhattan office buildings have been blown up by Afghanistan-based terrorists in the past 18+ years.

Biden makes the case with some emotion against just abandoning small-footprint presences in Afghanistan & Iraq.

Buttigieg asked to repeat the Obama 2007 talking points about his judgment being a substitute for experience.

Biden seems to think Democratic primary voters know or care about NATO.

Big Catholic-schoolboy vibe from Steyer's collection of plaid ties.

Biden getting his Irish up. "I was there!"

Bernie uses climate change as a lever to argue for national security isolationism while simultaneously attacking Trump as an isolationist.

Predictably, the first NH-specific question is about opioid epidemic.

Buttigieg runs away from his own website that calls for decriminalization of all drugs. Says he just wants to abolish incarceration for drug offenses.

Klobuchar has to face questions about being a prosecutor. Admits to locking up drug dealers.

Biden goes after Bernie for selling out to gun companies. I suspect this is too off-brand for Bernie for this to matter.

Biden wants to lock up specific people in drug companies.

Warren talks about guns in a way that perfectly hits the core Democratic base & doesn't even consider the existence of anyone else.

Biden basically says he's in favor of litmus tests, but via dog whistles. Brags about Bork fight 33 years ago.

Biden says hell yes, Roe v Wade litmus test now.

Biden says the Constitution can't protect "any of the things I care about" if it only protects the stuff that is actually written in the Constitution.

Klobuchar says she wants Justices who respect precedent. Citizens United? Heller?

Buttigieg on Court-packing, his most destructively radical position. Talks about amending the Constitution to restrict political speech.

Biden sides with Ginsburg against Court-packing. Goes after FDR.

Bernie also says we need a pro-Roe litmus test, federal funding for abortion.

Steyer stresses that "we have the most diverse party...everyone on this stage believes the same"

Buttigieg is incapable of saying that more arrests might have had anything to do with either more crime or more law enforcement.

Warren: "We need to start having race-conscious laws."

This is not a new idea in America, or in the Democratic party.

Yang: MLK would ask for money.

Steyer: "I'm for reparations." Joe Biden has racists working for him. (Dick Harppotlian)

Biden: black people love me! Look at the polls!

Bernie rhymes when he starts talking about race.

Klobuchar wants to repeal the federal laws against purging even dead people from the voter rolls.

Warren goes back to taxing the rich as a solution to racism.

Steyer on race: "Pretending we're all the same is not accurate."

Asked about Bloomberg, Warren goes hard against buying your way onstage.

Bernie is, if anything, even angrier than Warren at Bloomberg.

Bernie goes all "you, Lieutenant Weinberg?" at Buttigieg over big dollar donors.

Buttigieg tries to make a virtue of the fact that his only public office was far too insignificant to raise money from major donors.

Warren wants to hold agricultural trade hostage to climate agreements?

Steyer: we should stop killing terrorists if it makes it harder to get climate deals.

Klobuchar literally verbatim repeating lines from her stump speech and prior debates.

George Stephanopoulos just had his mike go out.

Yang arguing against math in market economies.

Buttigieg hits the ultimate West Wing candidate line: "a different kind of politics."

SPOILER: that's not going to happen and he's not really going to try.

Warren: spend REAL MONEY on every single thing compared to the few, piddling trillions the federal government spends now.

Bernie's old-time Brooklyn accent works so well precisely because his ideas are so bonkers.

Klobuchar now retelling the FDR story she told in her speech Monday night.

Klobuchar carries her note pad offstage like she's gonna behead a staffer with it.