Why any half-competent foe could have clobbered Hillary Clinton at the final debate

Lucky for her, she didn't face a remotely decent opponent. She faced Donald Trump.

Too bad.
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At several moments during the third presidential debate, and especially in its first half hour, the country caught a fleeting glimpse of what might have happened this year if the Republican Party had nominated a half-way competent candidate to compete against Democrat Hillary Clinton.

On the Supreme Court, Clinton said, in effect, that she thinks the Court should serve as a second legislative body in which liberals hold a majority of the seats and exercise veto power over the other branches of government.

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.