Why reality TV has nothing on the Democratic debates

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Why reality TV has nothing on the Democratic debates
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The returning hits: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders The one to watch: Elizabeth Warren The freshman sensation: Pete Buttigieg The sleeper: Kamala Harris

Yes, television’s longest-running reality competition commences this week when NBC News, MSNBC and Telemundo host the first round of Democratic debates from Miami. And if this run-up to the primaries is anything like the last one, we’ll have at least 10 more of these media-sponsored spectacles — “Naked and Afraid” for the clothed and ambitious — before the party chooses its nominee for president.

Thursday’s challengers are Biden, Sanders, Sen. Kamala Harris, South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Michael Bennet, author Marianne Williamson, Rep. Eric Swalwell, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, entrepreneur Andrew Yang and former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper. The Democratic National Committee took the names of those who qualified and divided them into two buckets: candidates with polling averages of at least 2 percent and everyone else. Then came the random drawing. Officials determined the makeup of each night’s group by plucking names from said buckets as if it were game night at the senior center. It’s unclear if anyone actually yelled “Bingo!” when the results were announced.

Klobuchar and Inslee’s arguments for better prescription drug coverage or stronger climate change legislation are unlikely to inspire the same sort of adrenaline rush. Where’s that addictive knee-jerk nationalism, outrage and disgust that news outlets and audiences now expect?

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