The First GOP Debate

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(08-24-2023, 12:24 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: The moderators never asked if any candidates still thought the election was stolen.

Why would they need to? 

It would be nice to know if a candidate can sort reality from fiction--in my view the most important criterion for national leadership.

Also I'd like to know if a potential leader understands how much damage Trump has done to our nation and system of government.

People who put that all down to Trump derangement syndrome and spin off into the narrative of how an innocent Trump, greatest
president of the 21st century, has been snared by a weaponized DOJ mobilized by the "deep state's" fear he will clean the swamp,
will be basing their decisions on a false reality, or are coldly mobilizing a Trump manipulation--the Big Lie-- to their own benefit,
as Rupert Murdoch did and Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity are still doing.  

If they get to office they'll set about' fixing institutions that are not broken and prosecuting honorable patriotic Americans who did their job.
One of the biggest problems in our polity at the moment is that political assessments have been severed from any kind ground in
empirical reality. True believers will continue that if in office.

People who don't believe the Big Lie, like Pence, but who nevertheless think nothing should happen to Trump, are also, in my view,
quite unfit for office, quite unable to govern by principle. They are still influenced by mob pressure. They help normalize this situation
in which someone who attempted to break democracy, and would again if ever in office, is once more running with a chance of winning
with the blessing of most Republicans.

Also, for people who still do think the election was stolen, I'd think they'd want to know which candidates would also be living in that
fantasy with them. 

So what's up with the don't ask don't tell policy of the moderators?