The Great Debate: Lies and Spectacle Defeats Memory Freeze and Confusion

Jun 30, 2024

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By Carl Davidson

LeftLinks Weekly, June 28, 2024

If we had to use brief understatement to describe Thursday night's Biden-Trump debate, we would call it a victory for spectacle and a defeat for substance. But since modern televised presidential debates, by their nature, are always victories of spectacle over substance, we wouldn't be making an appropriate…

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