Advertisement

Looking Backwards

Admittedly, I haven’t seen that much of this Republican debate. But from what I’ve seen, and from what I’ve seen in previous debates, it’s striking to me how much of the focus is on the candidates pasts on whose record is the most purely conservative. Very little attention is being paid to the candidates’ policies to what it is they want to do as president to improve Americans’ lives. They gesture in the direction of policy ideas, but there’s no real debate about them; nobody is running because he has a program to help people with their problems, or complaining that his rivals’ program isn’t good.

Advertisement