Admit it, people, you miss the Republicans screaming at one another.

“So far I cannot believe how civil it’s been up here,” said Donald Trump in the most-quoted moment of Thursday’s debate — an event that is probably not going to be all that much quoted.

“The fact of the matter is, we have to have an expedited process.”

“There’s T.P.A. and TPP. I opposed TPP and have always opposed TPP.”

“… you know, Smoot-Hawley led to the Great Depression.”

Trump was the man we came to hear, and he didn’t exactly dominate the deep dives into policy. Still, it was interesting to learn that Marco Rubio doesn’t care about climate change, considering he lives in a city that seems to be submerging rather rapidly. And Ted Cruz has an irritating habit of holding his hand over his heart when he talks.

All right, that wasn’t an issue. Let’s consider Social Security.

Rubio started off by waving the requisite senior citizen flag (“I’m against any changes to Social Security that are bad for my mother”) and then delivering the bad news for people under 55, who would be getting higher retirement ages. Or, under Ted Cruz’s plan, a different program entirely. Fifty-four-year-olds, they are so after you.