Trump has peerless energy and power, but it was unharnessed in this debate. To make a sports analogy he's like early Sandy Koufax and Randy Johnson, still unable to control his fastball even in his mid-70s. He's a super alpha-predator, but that is an acquired taste in a country in which raw masculinity has been demonized as "toxic" for decades now. Old Joe hung in there, two more debates to go, the only certainty is that this election isn't going to be decided Election Day, it's all about how bad and nasty it's going to get afterward.
