The symbolic Spanish debate

“In case you hadn’t heard, Univision hosted a Spanish-language Democratic presidential debate on Sunday night. It was the latest in an already long and tedious string of contests to see who can repeat his or her boilerplate with more and fresher conviction. Even though there have been over a dozen debates already, only a few have provided any long and tedious string real fodder for voter decision-making.

The Univision debate may have been historic for its simultaneous English-to-Spanish-back-to-English-subtitle translation, but little that came from candidates’ mouths was worth remembering, especially because they weren’t actually allowed to do the Spanish-speaking themselves.”

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