Surely nobody expected Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to forgo the substance of a real presidential debate and flawlessly perform a duet of Dirty Dancing‘s theme song, “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life.”
But that’s exactly what happened.
We’ll have to wait a few more days to see how this affects the polls, but we can say one thing with certainty: We’ve never felt this way before.
Miles Klee is a novelist and web culture reporter. The former editor of the Daily Dot’s Unclick section, Klee’s essays, satire, and fiction have appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, Vanity Fair, 3:AM, Salon, the Awl, the New York Observer, the Millions, and the Village Voice. He’s the author of two odd books of fiction, ‘Ivyland’ and ‘True False.’
