JIM GERAGHTY ON THE FIRST DEMOCRATIC DEBATE: Booker and Castro Thrive, Warren Coasts, and Beto Crashes. “It’s time to call it – he’s thoroughly underwhelming as a debater and wildly overrated as a public speaker. Answering the first question in Spanish, unprompted, looked like a pandering gimmick. He had some better moments as the night progressed, but he was hit so many times by so many other candidates he must have felt like . . . a piñata.”

Heh.™