Stuart Stevens, a former Republican strategist who left his party after its embrace of Donald Trump, doesn't merely think the former president had a bad debate night.
Rather, he thinks that Trump had a debate so bad that it should disqualify him from ever holding public office again.
Writing on X, Stevens recounted past debates in which two former presidents -- George W. Bush and Barack Obama -- performed poorly, but he argued that neither of those performances compared to the one that Trump delivered.
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"Last night, VP Harris disqualified Trump," he said. "He was exposed as a fool, a know nothing who can’t distinguish between fantasy and reality. He astonishingly said he would not have honored Article 5 of NATO, the linchpin to post-WW2 peace and prosperity for Western Alliance. He showed he lives in this make-believe world where Americans overwhelmingly opposed Roe v Wade. He was humiliated, dominated, left sputtering 'Get off my lawn!'"
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Stevens then turned his ire toward his former party, whom he accused of destroying its reputation in the name of a wholly unfit candidate.
"That dangerous fool is the legacy of the modern Republican Party," he concluded on Wednesday. "All those Rs I helped elect, when your careers are studied, this is what you will be remembered for. Shame. You failed a test as Americans. The worst generation."
