Opinion: My Debate Night Mission: to Find the Good in Donald Trump

“They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats.” With that absurd and racist lie, Donald Trump lost Tuesday night’s presidential debate. To be clear, he also lost on policy, substance, style, temperament, coherence, and truthfulness. Had there been a white towel to throw, it should have been thrown, although perhaps a white hood would have been more apropos.

By the end of the debate, Trump looked like a deflated whoopie cushion.

The salience of the bizarre pet-eating statement belies a central claim of the MAGA right, that those of us who despise Trump only do so because we live in an echo chamber which magnifies the worst of Trump while ignoring all the good. To my Republican friends, I ask: Where was the good during Tuesday’s debate?

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