It would have been funny - were it not so sad - in the morning-after debate boohoos, to tally all of the ways Donald Trump lost the third and final debate to Hillary Clinton on Wednesday night.
But his show-stopper refusal to commit to accepting the outcome of the election negated the need for any other reviews.
"I will look at it at the time. What I'm saying is that I will tell you at the time. I'll keep you in suspense. OK?"
That's what Trump said when debate moderator Chris Wallace asked twice, and in a very nice and fair way, if Trump would - as his vice president Mike Pence said and as his daughter Ivanka said - make a commitment to honor the proud tradition of America with a peaceful transition of power. Would Trump, should he lose the election, concede his loss at the end of this contentious campaign for the good of the country?
Trump wouldn't say it. This from the man who for weeks, and in the debate, too, insisted without one shred of evidence that the election "is rigged." This from the man who has told his supporters to watch the polls like vigilantes lest the presidency be "stolen" from them. This from the same man who has told his supporters to punch and throw out nonsupporters at his rallies. This from the man who has said his opponent should be jailed and who, in the heart of Wednesday's debate, called her "such a nasty woman."
Hillary Clinton immediately called the grandstanding refusal "horrifying."
She added that Trump often claims things that don't go his way are "rigged" against him.
"The FBI conducted a year-long investigation into my e-mails. They concluded there was no case; he said the FBI was rigged. He lost the Iowa caucus. He lost the Wisconsin primary. He said the Republican primary was rigged against him. Then Trump University gets sued for fraud and racketeering; he claims the court system and the federal judge are rigged against him. There was even a time when he didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged against him," she said.
Trump leaned into his microphone right on cue: "Should have gotten it," he smirked.
The audience laughed - and winced.
America has a 240-year history of free and fair elections and of candidates who thought first of our country after each election rather than of themselves.
Obviously Donald Trump can't do that. He'd rather spend months, maybe years, poking the finger of illegitimacy at any victor other than himself, just as he did when he questioned Barack Obama's birthplace and citizenship.
On Thursday afternoon, in typical Trump fashion, he reinvented the conversation of the debate, telling rally attendees that he was being asked to "waive" his right to contest the election. That's simply not true.
But Trump continued. "I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election - if I win."
Trump surrogates have pushed back at the outrage Trump's comments brought, pointing to Al Gore, who sought a recount in several Florida counties after the 2000 election.
But no, Gore didn't "do the same thing." Gore didn't spend the two months before that election inciting his supporters to monitor the polls for fraud and election thieves. Gore supporters, months before the election, weren't publicly claiming to reporters that there would be "revolution" if he didn't win. And on the day after the Supreme Court ruled on the 2000 election, Gore called Bush to concede.
Of course, Gore wasn't planning to launch a new media venture after the election, either, so he didn't need to exploit voters and headlines by telling the nation in a debate broadcast live on all major networks that he would keep us "in suspense."
Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, who ran Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, called Trump's debate remarks "a disqualifying moment" for the candidate.
"It's a moment of clear and present danger to our constitutional order, to the republic," Schmidt said. "It's unprecedented in this history of the country. Constitutional officers like Paul Ryan are now at an hour where they're called to step forward, to exhibit political courage, to put the country first and to communicate very clearly that we have legitimate elections in this country and that is how we choose our leaders."
But Thursday's workday came and went with no comment from House Speaker Paul Ryan or Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Arizona Sen. McCain, however, did not hide.
"I didn't like the outcome of the 2008 election," he said of the year he lost his bid to be president. "But I had a duty to concede, and I did so without reluctance. A concession isn't just an exercise in graciousness. It is an act of respect for the will of the American people, a respect that is every American leader's first responsibility."
Yes, it's certainly true that Trump hasn't lost the election yet. But after all his "rigged" talk, why can he not just calmly say that of course he will respect the will of American voters - unless he believes there is evidence of a problem.
Why? Because he's Trump. Because he's such a nasty man.