The general reaction seems to be appropriately at the ease with which Trump was allowed to spray out the usual firehose of lies with absolute and total impunity. Insane. Good thing the Biden camp had the idea to run this debate early, Biden has way overthought this and played it wrong. Trump must have felt all his Christmases have bunched up together when he discovered his lies would be allowed to stand unchallenged.

It was at that point when again he claimed credit for the insulin price cap set under Biden (and again it was unchallenged) that it became obvious that Trump had outsmarted them all with his lizard brain genius, or maybe their inability to fathom this cosmic riddle. What is simplest and easiest and comes instinctively for Trump also works the best, which is to simply lie.

Trump lies as if no one was watching. Lie like you love to lie. Live Lie Love. Why are all these news anchors completely unable to work this puzzle out after so many years and so much self conscious introspection that they are being hoodwinked but they don’t know how.

Trump must be called out to his face, a meta commentary on him in the present it’s all a game and you have to pull the curtains back. For example instead of trying to deal with his favourite lies when they inevitably come, they should be dealt with beforehand. Like ‘we all know this is what you are going to do, and this is what we are going to do to counteract it when it happens’. Explain to the listener, this is how the magic trick works before they see it.

Or before the debate have a small preamble around all the lies that you know are going to come and disarm them from the start. Or other things like this, but please not more dancing with Trump. Have they not learned anything since Kaitlan Collins’ disastrous town hall with Trump where she allowed him to further defame and mock E. Jean. Carroll. And yet here we are.

It is clear to me now how Biden has to handle the next debate, which is how he should have handled this one, and that is to completely ignore or just pay cursory lip service to any questions and simply use the uninterrupted time to speak directly to the American people about what 70 plus million of them are apparently too stupid to understand.