Not going deep.

I’m just with Debra Messing on this Beto O’Rourke kid. You know her. Will and Grace, right? She tweeted this after yesterday’s debates:

I hear ya’, Grace.

He’s got it goin’ on, this kid. Kid is the right word, too. He’s a whippersnapper compared to the creepy old Cryptkeepers we’re used to seeing on the news these days.

But there’s more to it than that. Something soul stirring happens when Beto speaks. Something I haven’t seen for years. Something I’ve missed.

Let me show you. Now, Ted Cruz is using this clip as a dog whistle to nervous white folks. But to a Black woman like me it’s a rallying cry, thank you very much. The congregation apparently felt the same way. Watch:

Damn, that feels good.

And for those of you grumbling that there needs to be more to it than “feels,” let me say: this is America. Where Trump throws huge stadium love fests to bitch and moan and bask in the cheers whenever he’s had a bad week.

This is the country where John F. Kennedy won a crucial debate — and the presidential election — because he was just so damned good looking. Smart as a whip, politically savvy and shrewd, too. But fine as hell. Like his wife. Jackie.

Yeah, we’re all about the “feels.”

So here’s another “feel good” moment from Beto. Having listened to Ted Cruz bellow and berate him throughout yesterday’s debates, Beto walked forward to deliver his closing remarks…and told the audience who and what he was running for, instead of who and what he was running against.

In fact, he said he wasn’t running against anyone. And how he said it, was the “feel good” part. I teared up a little bit. I did. Watch again:

But the moment I loved most happened after that debate. As a Who fan, but also just as a human being, a voter, and someone who is just soooooo damned tired of being afraid to even watch the news anymore because of the inevitable depression that follows.

The debate’s over, the kid’s in the car, coming down from the rush. And he turns up “Baba O’Riley” as loud as he can crank it, so that he can “air drum” and sing a much-deserved victory song.

Watch one more time.

Just…fun. Pure, unadulterated exuberance. YouTube gave me a copyright alert when I posted this, so I hope they don’t silence the song. Only, it doesn’t matter, really. You’ll still be able to see how happy he is, drumming along with it.

That’s the point. Whatever happens, he’ll be happy, this guy. I just believe that. There is something going on there that even politics can’t crush. And we need some o’ that. Whatever it is. Badly. It could heal us, maybe.

Now, I don’t even live in Texas. I live in Arizona where the only kinda cool candidate we have is Kyrsten Sinema, who’s getting attacked for going to anti-war protests back in the day wearing a pink tutu.

She’s a serious candidate, though. From a military family — take that McSally — that obviously raised her to believe in the First Amendment rights her relations fought so hard to preserve. Like free speech and “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” In any color tutu you want to wear.

And she’s giving McSally a run for it. Polls say it’s a “dead heat.” I’m hoping she pulls ahead soon.

It’s not just the tutu I like. It’s the refreshing decision she seems to have made not to attack back, but to look forward.

Kind of Like Beto. But she doesn’t have the sizzle yet. Maybe soon.

Right now, I’m lookin’ toward Texas. And ‘way past the midterms.

Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti, who is also looking toward 2020, called it for Beto after those debates, too. But cautioned that Beto couldn’t turn around and run for president so soon after slamming Cruz for abandoning the people for politics during the debates.

Not so fast, Magic Mike. First, this is politics. People “change their minds” all the time. And second, this kid may be the most charismatic candidate the Dems have had since that other really fly guy we miss so much.

I don’t think we’d stay mad at him too long. In fact, I don’t think we’d be mad at him at all. Because Debra Messing and I think he could beat that orange aberration currently squatting in the White House.

And make America feel good again.

C’mon, people. You know you want some. Keep your eye on this guy…

And have some more fun with Stephen Colbert this time: