Mark Penn: Democrats' debate was a panderfest

The second night of the second round of the Democrats’ presidential debates was no eloquent dialogue between moderates and the left. It was an all-out panderfest and, at times, an old-fashioned slugfest.

By the end of this endless debate, spooned out in one-minute dollops, I walked out with a $1,000-a-month check, an extra grand if I’m a female, untold reparations dollars if I am African-American, Medicare from birth covering everything I’ll ever need until death, and the right to cross the border without any real penalty if I’m from another...