11 March 2016

Post Republican debate music — All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down

For Republicans it was an amazingly civil debate. No schoolyard taunts, no “Be quiet, Little Marco” shushes from Big Trump. The craziness was in policy — attacking Social Security is not the best way to win votes in Florida — not style. Jake Tapper and his colleagues deserve a lot of credit for that. Unlike Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer, they tried to incite a serious discussion of the issues instead of starting a ratings boosting bar fight.

Still, I shuddered after it was over. Men whose positions on the issues make John Kasich seem moderate make me wonder whether I fell into a time warp and emerged into 1930s Europe. But rather than selecting music from that time and place for this morning’s video, I remembered this double caffeinated performance in Austin, Texas, by The Mavericks. It’s an audio antidote to what happened in Miami last night.