There are a lot of substantive comments to make about the two town halls.  Trump held up well even though Savannah Guthrie was attacking him like a maddened chihuahua.  Biden also held up well thanks to George Stephanopoulos's gentle handling and an increasing number of very long commercial breaks.  (And was Biden fed the questions in advance?  He seemed unusually prepared.)  But the real star had to be the woman in the red mask sitting behind Trump.  She nodded supportively every time he answered and shook her head every time the maddened chihuahua interrupted and interrogated him. What made Ms. Red Mask's support even more striking is the fact that she's black.  We're routinely assured that, even though Joe Biden has the most racist history of any candidate in history (racist comments, segregationist friends, the community-destroying crime bill, etc.), it's Trump whom blacks should...(Read Full Post)