Tonight will be the Democrats’ first 2020 presidential debate. We hope that, at long last, their party realizes it’s time to get serious.

Yes, we’ve heard them launch serious enough (if that’s a synonym for “angry”) attacks against President Trump and against one another. But aside from all the bitterness and scolding, Democrats have done little in this race so far besides attempting to outbid one another in offering freebies, mostly to their upper-middle-class constituents.