It appears that Trump's strategy isn't to try to "win" the debates.
He wants to depress turnout by bringing Biden and the viewers down into the mud with him and increasing cynicism and "bothsides"-ism.
He wants to depress turnout by refusing to say that he'll accept the election results (people are less likely to vote when they think it won't matter).
And he wants to keep his Proud Boys on "standby" in case the election is close enough for his coup to have a chance.
So I think that his goals are deeply Unamerican. But I also think that he accomplished them.
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