For the second time this summer, Americans witnessed a presidential campaign debate unlike anything we’ve seen since the dawning of the Television Age.
Oddly, those unprecedented debates ended with a common result: Both times, it was the old guy who did himself in.
Last June’s debate was the saddest in presidential history. We watched President Joe Biden succumb to his octogenarian years.
Last Tuesday, we watched former President Donald Trump, a near octogenarian at 78, suddenly lose it. He angrily erupted in a claim that Haitian immigrants are slaughtering and eating Ohio family pets — but provided no verifying fact.
Foreshadowing alert: Trump may have been misled into thinking his political rookie running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance — author of the best-seller and movie, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis” — saw at least a bit of proof.