Opinion by Karen Tumulty: A part of the election process that American voters have come to take for granted is, for all its flaws, a near-miracle. The Trumpified Republican Party should not be allowed to toss it aside.
The RNC isn’t operating on principle here. It is, once again, channeling the grievances of Trump. His demands of fealty have required that Republicans knock over institutions that protect the integrity of our elections, one after another. Walking away for the debates commission is only the latest example of the GOP’s efforts to erode confidence in the nation’s democracy.
From the start, presidential contenders and their campaigns bristled at having an independent body set the rules — and in some cases, at even having to debate. In 1996, the commission proposed three debates, but Clinton, who was cruising to an easy victory over GOP nominee Bob Dole, agreed to only two. Four years later, the campaign of Republican George W.
where they would have smaller, narrower audiences. In 2008, the commission wasn’t even sure Republican nominee John McCain was going to show up for one until the morning of the debate.But for all the chaos that can sometimes attend them, American-style presidential debates have given voters a relatively unvarnished look at their future leaders under pressure — and then given those voters a second, and sometimes third, chance to double-check their instincts. That’s priceless in a democracy.
And in parts of the world where democracies are struggling to gain a foothold and where citizens have never had any expectation that they could take the measure of those who would seek to lead them, our system of debates is already a powerful export. The commission has
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