Like, it's not hard to see that what's going on here is a whole lot of motivated reasoning and pre-written Takes trying their damndest to make Mt. Everest out of a small hillock.
The bit about Nick Kristof having this take baked in two days ago is just the cherry on the sundae. There's a lot of folks out there who think they know exactly how to beat Trump, & that strategy consists entirely of "Don't do it that way. You'll never make it that way."
Maybe I'm just old now but I remember Obama's first debate performance in 2012 and this was nowhere near that bad. I think people just like panicking at this point.
