status competition between winners and losers. it s this world view. i m a winner. i ll make america a winner. but i think he looked kind of like a loser by his own standard last night. it s just sort of assertions when he did state a fact or seem to have thought through an issue like single payer health care. he was widely far from that republican party, so i didn t think he looked very good up on that stage. ditto. he was on the stage with a stage full of political professionals, and they came prepared to talk about things in substance. i remember seeing trump on bill o reilly s show. he asked him whether he would be prepared to debate. he said whatever. he brought whatever to the stage. i think even his followers came away saying that s not enough. there s more than anger going on here. we have often criticized politicians for being over wonk where i. we are wonks for a living. that s what we do for a living but the public doesn t pay attention to a lot of these issues. we