Confessions of a debate watcher
The debates have blown past their use-by date. Even candidates to whom I am kindly disposed grow by turns tiresome with the repetition of threadbare tropes and infuriating as they level ever more hyperbolic attacks upon one another in frenzied attempts to gain some edge with the electorate and for those not named Sanders, Bloomberg, or Steyer, woo donors for infusions of cash desperately needed to keep faltering campaigns afloat. Tuesday evening's affair was downright ugly. A