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"Mr. Trump is unlikely to appear for the debate—why should he? He doesn’t buy into the idea of a national plebiscite of well-informed Americans considering the candidates and the issues. He is the front runner. He performs terribly in debates, as he really doesn’t have a platform, doesn’t respond well to questions, and can only hurt himself."

I have little if any disagreement with anything you wrote above about Trump and I have absolutely ZERO interest in his winning the Republican nomination, much less the Presidency, but this paragraph above intentional blindness and/or hypocrisy of Biden supporters/Trump-haters with respect to the upcoming election cycle. You can replace "Trump" with "Biden" in this paragraph and it remains equally true.

President Biden has drawn 2 primary challengers, once of which (RFK Jr.) is polling in the same range as DeSantis, yet Biden and the Democrat Party have already declared that there will be no debate. Since the party already has a leader, there will be no engaging with legitimate opposition within the party's own ranks. The irony of the "Democratic" party refusing to engage the democratic process should enrage anyone of a serious mind.

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