There's really not that much in tonight's debate to excite a progressive, since all eleven candidates on the main stage will be trying to seem to be the most conservative of conservatives, abandoning even St. Ronnie into RINO land. I don't plan on boring myself by watching, but if you really must, here's a drinking game to play guaranteed to leave you blotto by the end of the "debate". All you need to do is classify everything the Trumpster says into three "B"s and three "I"s, and drink accordingly.
The rules of the game are below the orange drink coaster.
When Trump is speaking in general, he seems to fall into three categories, BLATHER, BOASTING and BULLSHIT
BLATHER is the default mode for his speech. It's generally an incoherent word salad, worthy of Sarah Palin at her tundra-treading best. It makes no logical sense, it's just stream of consciousness words and phrases he thinks he's memorized.
BOASTING is the unsubstantiated, unsupported claims without any explanation of how he'd get there, like saying how much money he has made, how much women love him, how he'll win the Hispanic vote, and how he'll make America great again.
BULLSHIT is when he actually states a fact, or an opinion that he thinks is a fact. These are things said with enough specificity we can actually check whether he's right or wrong. Claims like the number of Mexicans crossing the border, or their crime rate. These can almost always be shown to be dead wrong.
So for the drinking game: Pour a beer. If the blathers, sip the beer. If he boasts, chug the rest of the beer. If he bullshits, chug that beer, pour another and chug it too.
When Trump talks about others, especially other candidates, it's three "I"s instead, INJURY, INVECTIVE and INSULT.
When he talks about how others treat him, it's with an exaggerated sense of injury - complaining they insult his hair, or his business successes.
When he talks about other people in general, it's usually invective - that all of the American government is filled with stupid people, who can't negotiate with other governments the way he could (with a little boasting thrown in.
When he talks about a specific opponent, it's insult - Bush is low energy, Carson is clueless and Fiorina is ugly.
Here's the drinking game. Pour your favorite hard liquor. Sip it when he complains about being injured. Gulp it all down when he invokes generalized invective. Slam it down, pour another and slam it down for a direct insult.
If there's anything left besides the three "B"s and the three "I"s, we might know what the idiot actually believes. I wouldn't count on it, but I would expect to be blitzed before the debate is over.