Stop civil-washing Vance

In its banal normalization of fascist rhetoric, everyone lost in the vice-presidential debate

Debates may not change minds, may not matter in terms of electoral decision-making, and contests between vice-presidential candidates even less so — but the single debate between Tim Walz and J.D. Vance was significant in just how much Vance’s performance and the framing of the event presented outright fascist arguments and positions as simple democrati…