It might have taken three primary debates for Donald Trump’s challengers to start really loathing each other—but it took four for them to fully, completely, and fanatically lose it.
On stage Wednesday night in Alabama, the four remaining non-Trump candidates in the GOP presidential primary did not just attack each other, interrupt each other, or pierce the flaws in each other’s arguments.
They insulted each other, demanded each other to shut up, called each other liars, and attempted to one-up each other in endorsing extreme positions. Across two hours, different sets of the four candidates on stage paired off for duels, bloodying each other to the delight of a gleeful crowd.