#Critic’s Notebook: J.D. Vance and Tim Walz Get Serious but Stay (Mostly) Civil in a Substantive Debate
One thing became painfully clear during the debate between vice presidential candidates J.D. Vance and Tim Walz: Donald Trump has ruined our expectations of political debates forever. Where were the wild accusations about canine-eating migrants? The nasty insults and onstage stalking? The not-so-veiled references to penis size? They were nowhere to be found in this…