Dennis Prager has a very interesting article today in the National Review Online, entitled “Clinton Won on Nonsense, Trump Won on Substance” (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/440665/donald-trump-won-debate-so-hillary-clinton-tried-changing-subject).  Once again, I am not commending this article because I love Donald Trump, or even because I will definitely vote for him (I have one month left to decide, as do you).  But Prager raises an important consideration about our tendency to overlook the important issues and focus on the trivial.  To be sure, Trump allowed himself to be taken down that trivial road by Clinton.  So he is to blame for his own responses.  But we also need to pay attention to what Clinton actually said about what she would “do” as president.  As Prager points out, many of her proposals border on pure socialism.

I won’t spoil the article for you by going through the list of issues Trump actually got right and that Clinton got terribly wrong—and factually wrong.  One example brought out by Dennis Prager was Hillary asserting that the housing crisis and subsequent recession were caused by “slashing taxes.”  As Prager points out, this is flat out wrong, even deceitful.   Not even a liberal economist places blame for the housing crisis on taxes.  The cause was actually Fannie Mae and Fannie Mac, two federally controlled agencies that were essentially forced to make bad loans to people who could not possibly pay them off.  This practice was coerced during—yes—the Bill Clinton administration.  But of course Hillary Clinto conveniently forgot all that.

There’s more.  Read it.  It is not offered to get you to love Trump, but it is offered to get you to think more deeply about the real issues, as opposed to red herrings.