Coach Walz on the field

Can Tim Walz turn the Trumpian tables on J.D. Vance and triumph as an everyman against an elite, out-of-touch demagogue?

What is a man?

Tomorrow evening — in what’s looking to be the last debate between top-of-ticket candidates this election season — Tim Walz and J.D. Vance will take their respective cases to the nation, and that question will, inevitably, be on the table. 

It’s never been clear what debates mean or what effect they have. Still, putting aside those unanswer…