I looked again at the original article in its natural state (without the response window open). This time I saw that you did prepare a proper tag.

My bets are that he does not respond. But I have been wrong before.

We are in a left-leaning echo chamber. I would not consider claps and hoots a victory when scoring points on big issues by using 20 words.

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I used to belong to a university debating club. I was also sometimes a judge--and that job requires an immense amount of listening.

I have thought about setting a Medium pub with resembles a proper debate, but the time commitment to do this well is a little large.