Most of the post-fight commentators agreed with me that Carly Fiorina and Marco Rubio “won” CNN’s widely-viewed “Wednesday Night Fights.” They gave the same reasons for this that I would have given on camera.
Mystifying, however, on the subject of the Donald, the same folks all gave some version of, “He didn’t do all that well but he didn’t hurt himself.”
Could this be true? Have I lived so long that being rude, arrogant, inarticulate, unresponsive, and borderline incoherent no longer carry any political price?
