If it walks like a rigged debate and talks like a rigged debate, it’s a rigged debate. That was the way many people, including myself, regarded, in advance, October 22nd’s supposedly third but actually second debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. Lined up against the current president was not only his adversary Biden and the moderator, whose partisanship was so well-documented she might as well have been communications director for the Democratic Party, but the entire Commission on Presidential Debates that consisted of three co-chairs, a nine-person board of directors and an executive director—that’s fifteen to one!—not to mention a monolithically left-leaning mainstream media and, worst of all, the gatekeepers of our (and the world’s) now extraordinarily dominant social media who have shown an allegiance to censorship straight out of the NKVD (an earlier incarnation of the Soviet KGB). Also foreign policy, normally the topic …

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