Monday night, you probably were hard at work on your post-debate blather bingo card.

And if you don't know what that is yet, it is at our website, and it's good for the next debate, too, so go get one.

Anyway, Mike Peska, host of Slates The Gist, wasn't working on his bingo card.

He was deep in the spin cycle at Hofstra University.

He prepared a very late night rapid response report for his daily show.

And here it is for you.

It's the morning of Tuesday, September 27, 2016.

From Slate, it's the gist.

This is a post-debate rapid response.

So tonight's showdown was simultaneously the craziest, most bizarre bit of political theater

I've seen since, well, since the last time Donald Trump took the stage,

but it was also in a way the most predictable. It was expected. It was set your clock to it for anyone

who was paying attention. It turns out, and this whole thing hinged on, this one idea, that

Donald Trump is a poor communicator of ideas.

Wrong.

No, not wrong, Donald.

When not speaking to a rabid fan base or a group who gets your dog whistle references

or understands and fills in the blanks of your spotty sentences,

you are simply bad at putting

together an argument that is compelling.

Wrong.

It's not wrong.

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