What Went Down On Night One Of The Second Democratic Debate

We have made it pretty far into this debate without the candidates being asked to directly address Trump’s recent attacks on Democratic lawmakers of color. They also have not been asked about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. What I’m saying is, they haven’t been asked to talk about race.

If we’re being literal, given that Republicans are likely to control the Senate, then the Green Deal is unrealistic and so is Delaney’s plan. Support for the Green New Deal, like Medicare-for-all, is not really a policy debate but a proxy of bold ideas (Warren, Sanders) vs. the moderates (Hickenlooper, Ryan, Klobuchar, Bullock, Delaney).

I wonder if the media will decide that the moderates vs. liberals argument was settled by Warren’s dunk on Delaney instead of the much more even and complicated debate over health care.