Seems like the democratic playbook this year is to escalate by leaps and bounds. They've rejected incrementalism in favor of almost cartoonish excesses of totalitarianism. I mean, its one thing to set a precedent by having the very first televised presidential appearance for the the explicit purpose of attacking a former president, and that's already corrosive to our democracy and deeply shameful and will go down in history books- but that's the incremental escalation. But actually staging the event with the thematics of a hollywood villain, cribbing notes from Chancellor Sutler in V for Vendetta with the world's most overtly Orwellian backdrop? Now that's something. Everyone at CNN is licking their lips in anticipation that Joe Biden orders Donald Trump to be arrested- but at the rate we're going, its more likely Joe Biden will order Donald Trump beheaded by a swordsman in front of the Lincoln Memorial