Sane Republicans, stand up: The first debate of the 2024 cycle laid out a stark choice for GOP voters

Donald Trump wasn’t on the stage — the cowardly tyrant had taped a Tucker Carlson interview in which he branded the American left “savage animals” and called his Republican opponents “people that shouldn’t even be running for president” — but some of the eight candidates who did face off in the first debate of the 2024 presidential cycle did a decent job channeling him. The 38-year-old upstart in the Trump mold, bloviating businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, said he’d preemptively pardon the former president, who stands credibly accused in federal and state court of plotting to undermine American dem...