Democrat John Fetterman’s sad, stumbling debate performance against Republican Mehmet Oz underlined the fact that his party seeks victory with trickery. It isn’t interested in winning political arguments — that’s difficult — only in winning power.

Ever since Fetterman suffered a stroke two days before the primaries in May, voters reasonably wondered whether he could do the job if elected to represent Pennsylvania in the Senate. Was he impaired, and if so, how badly?

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