The Debate. Capital D. Everyone is undergoing meltdowns about it. Too many people are reacting as if this is the death knell of, well, Everything.
Chill. Firstly, read the transcripts. Right here. Then, for one interpretation, here’s an analysis from The Hill. And just to round out some of this, here’s some Fact Checking from AP.
(Back in the 1960 presidential campaign—some of you may remember this—Nixon and Kennedy had a debate. At that time, a large segment of the population got most of their information from the radio, but this was the dawn of television, so the debate was both broadcast and televised.…