When the Democratic nominee debates Trump

[DavidDvorkin]

Whether it's Hillary or Bernie, the problem will be the same: Trump's habit of talking over everyone else. We've seen what he's done in the GOP debates and how it has undermined his opponents and made them look weak. It should make him look foolish, but apparently a lot of voters think he's great precisely because of his steamroller tactic.

Can the Democrats get the moderators to assert themselves? The moderators have let Trump take over in the GOP debates. He ignores the buzzer and the mods and just keeps talking. This can't be allowed to happen in the general election debates. But I don't want to see the Democratic nominee behave just as boorishly in order to make Trump shut up.

[Bucky]

1. When people talk over me in an argument, I come back with...

"Why are you afraid to let me speak? What are you afraid to hear?"

It's a pretty good tactic if you're trying to impress a 3rd party. It shows behind the bluff is usually cowardice.

[Attorney in Texas]

2. Trump can't lay a glove on Sanders because he has said the exact same thing for 50 years.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

3. I recognized this a long time ago, and posted this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7490575

[Gregorian]

4. The idiocy of monster truck politics.

I stopped watching tv in the 70's. But I saw what was on. COPS. Baywatch. No Noam Chomsky. No science courses.

We're in post ponzi scheme America. Idiocracy is real, and intelligence is taunted with smiley emoticons.

Yet there is optimism. Bernie's campaign is still strong and growing. America can't be fully dead yet. This is the election that asks the question: is there a heart that still beats in this body America?