If you want to know who’s winning an NBA game, go on social media and see which fans are attacking the refs.

I mean, you can see it every game.

The winners are happy. The losers are hunting zebra.

On Tuesday night, American conservatives were kvetching and moaning about the refs.

“This is the new record for worst debate moderation. It is disgusting in the extreme,” wrote the Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway.

“Trump is having to debate both Kamala and the moderators,” complained U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.).

“These moderators are a disgraceful failure and this is one of the most biased, unfair debates I have ever seen. Shame on you,” wrote former Fox anchor and podcaster Megyn Kelly.

Come on, Megyn Kelly. You of all people. You’re the pundit who shoots straight even when Republicans are in the crosshairs.

The refs didn’t steal this debate. Donald Trump lost it as thoroughly as anyone can lose.

He lost because he was out-smarted, outclassed and out-performed over 90 minutes at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

He lost because the Democrats built a stage in Pittsburgh and ran Kamala Harris through a week of mock debates against a former Hillary Clinton aide, while the “stable genius” was tweeting out memes.

I fully expected Trump to lose this debate — and told my colleagues so in our daily meetings for more than a week leading up to it — because Trump can’t put two coherent sentences together.

Few remember that in his decisive win over Joe Biden, in which the sitting president collapsed under his mental infirmity, Trump was awful. An undisciplined, blithering mess.

On Tuesday night he was the same creature, only this time up against Kamala Harris, who is........

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