It is time. We recap the second night of the democratic debates, the thrills, the chills,

and the spills. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

Wow, so that was a mess. I mean, that's really the big takeaway from the second debate.

The first night seemed to have at least something like an order. Last night's debate was just a giant mess. Now, that doesn't mean we didn't learn some useful things about each of the candidates. And we're going to go through all of that in turn. But what we learned about the Democratic Party overall is that a lot of people want to be president. A lot of people are going to yell about it.

And all those people are radically to the left. And this is a party that has moved so far to the left, it is nearly unrecognizable when compared even with Barack Obama's 2008 platform. This is a party that has moved dramatically to the left, so far to the left that Joe Biden is now seen as anachronistic. So far to the left that anybody

who proclaims that, for example, it ought to remain illegal to cross the border illegally,

those people are now in the minority of the Democratic Party. This party has moved so far to the left

that the entire Democratic Party last night, every single candidate on stage suggested that

American taxpayers

should foot the bill for the health care of illegal immigrants. So combine those two factors,

basically open borders and health care for everybody. And what that means is that we are

getting to pay everybody's health care who wants to get in and can cross that border illegally.

I mean, this is radical, radical stuff. But that's not what these debates are

really about. In broad scope, that's what they're about. Because in the end, that will have an

impact on how Americans tend to think about these debates, about the parties, about 2020 going

forward. Half of the debate last night will be used in attack ads by President Trump against any

Democrat.

So if you thought that night one was sort of an anomaly, if you thought that night one

where Democrats basically out pledged one another to give free money to people was sort of an outlier,

that is not true. The heart and soul of the Democratic Party is to the far left.

And they are looking, I guess, for those extra three votes in Los Angeles and New York.

And they think somehow this is going to help them win an election where they really need Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. I didn't hear anything last night that focused on folks

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