Miami Debate Shows Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand Important Issues

Tonight in Miami was the most substantive Republican debate of the 2016 election, though it was shocking how Donald Trump made calls for civility on stage in light of how he slashed and burned his way to be most divisive GOP frontrunner in generations.Whether it was dismissing the Tiananmen Square heroes as mere “rioters” rather than understanding the magnitude of their bravery and sacrifice or dismissing an entire global religion of 1.6 billion adherents as extremists, Trump again illustrated he was out of his league on matters of policy and substance.While Common Core certainly has its problems, Trump also did not seem to realize they were state-based standards, not federal ones. He also continued his anti-capitalist blustering on trade, though he was aided by moderator questioning couching free trade as a bad thing for jobs instead of highlighting massive consumer surplus.Marco Rubio had returned to his element because the conversation was about policy and substance rather than the schoolyard fight  in the prior debate, and he outshone Trump on every issue, including his more nuanced response on Islamic terror, acknowledging that while there are extremists, most Muslims are peaceful and that in a visit to Arlington National Ceremony, you’d see…
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