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“Why are you watching that nonsense?” my wife keeps asking as I turn on the debates among Republican candidates for president. I k now it is theater, but the process fascinates nonetheless at another level, much  as the staged Senate confirmation hearings for appointing Supreme Court justices does. Do our processes work, crass and hyper as they have become?

I think the Republican presidential debates demonstrate that the democratic process works. The marketplace, the openness, usually the right result â€" it’s all there for the citizenry to behold.

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