Why the G.O.P. Candidates Don’t Do Substance

“Maybe I missed it,” Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, said in a tweet on Friday morning, “but we just had an entire #GOPDebate on economics and #TPP was never mentioned.” Haass was referring, of course, to the recently agreed upon Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free-trade agreement encompassing twelve Pacific Rim countries. He also could have cited numerous other economic phenomena that received cursory attention, at most, during Wednesday night’s Republican debate, which CNBC aired from Boulder, Colorado: the lingering effects of the Great Recession, the unemployment rate, the economic slowdown in China, the size of the budget deficit, the United States’ poor performance in math and science, the state of America’s physical infrastructure.

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