Bring Back the Fight!

Vice-presidential debates are notoriously inconsequential. The Vance–Walz back-and-forth will almost certainly make no difference to the outcome of the November election. But Governor Walz’s mostly, and uncharacteristically, emollient performance on Tuesday night, in which he pretended that Vance was a good-faith policy discussant rather than a malevolent threat to American democracy, embodied a significant rhetorical […]