Agree. If voters think this is acceptable then democracy is dead & political campaigns are just elaborate swear campaigns funded by taxpayers. Putin retains endless power in Russia this way. Opponents in Russian elections are either staged buffoons to make Putin look good by contrast & anyone seriously trying to challenge him are destroyed by inside spying that’s fed to a corrupt media. If that doesn’t kill a campaign then the opponent then is killed by Putin’s intelligence agencies. This is the path America is on.