Within the last two years, both major American parties have been dealt punishing blows for allowing their party leaders to literally age themselves into debilitating senescence. 

Have we learned our lessons yet, or will history repeat itself? Can the health of the nation withstand it again? This is an important story I’m not hearing tonight amidst the positive stories of sweeping change.

The analysis I’m not hearing about the 2024 presidential debate that is stunningly striking to me is that Donald J. Trump was asked twice about childcare and twice about the opioid crisis and all four times he actively chose to use his time to defend attacks on himself rather than address these major issues facing millions of American people. It is painfully obvious to me that he only has one constituent that matters to him—his own ego. Trump fails the test of basic empathy and humanity time and again.