"But lost in the hand wringing was Donald Trump’s usual bombastic litany of lies, hyperbole, bigotry, ignorance, and fear mongering. His performance demonstrated once again that he is a danger to democracy and unfit for office.”
“In fact, the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.”
As I was typing it out I thought that, and almost looked it up, but then I thought, can’t a living prisoner also be a martyr? In end I didn’t verify, and I am probably wrong. The essence of what I meant still stands though, and that’s what’s important.
I just threw it into duckduckgo. It came back with the American heritage dictionary having 6 definitions that were evenly split between death and great suffering.