The first presidential debate was on Monday and boy howdy. If you wanted to see the candidates expand on their platforms, well, one of them delivered.

Clinton was prepared, knowledgeable and utterly at ease behind the podium. Trump was catty, sniveling and ineloquent, failing to control his temper or assure his supporters that he could present himself as a president.

Trump, trying to stick to his what he’s been shouting, circled backed to trade again and again while never actually expanding on what he would do differently as president.

Meanwhile, Clinton crammed in as much of her policy as possible from the top, touching on renewable energy, investing in small business, equal pay for women, closing the income gap, paid family leave and having the wealthy pay their fair share all while answering the first question. Perhaps she foresaw how quickly it would devolve into character attacks.

When moderator Lester Holt attempted to get Donald Trump to explain how he would get businesses to come back to United States, as he claimed he would do, Trump abandoned the calmer persona he started the debate with and instead chose to interrupt, not answer the question and insist he would not let them leave in the first place.

Clinton continued to draw attention to the gaps in Trump’s campaign – his refusal to release his tax returns (his reasoning is that he’s being audited, although that didn’t stop Richard Nixon) and his “secret” plan to defeat ISIS.

Many of the claims Trump tried to refute during the debate turned out to be true according to independent fact checkers, such as his denial that he said climate change was a hoax invented by the Chinese, or when he insisted stop and frisk wasn’t unconstitutional, or when he again said that he didn’t push the Birther movement after Obama produced his birth certificate.

Donald also told lies that weren’t purely out of reaction to Clinton’s accusations. He said the decline in crime in New York City can be attributed to stop and frisk (it can’t) and that it was not racial profiling (it was). He said ISIS was making money on Libyan oil (they aren’t). He said he personally got NATO to create their terrorism intelligence division (he didn’t, they didn’t and that’s not what the change was).

So while Hillary shined as a presidential candidate, with polished policy and prepared quips, Donald bumbled, lied and sniffed his way through the debate. He even had the audacity the suggest a woman who stood for 11 hours in a congressional hearing didn’t have the stamina to be president.

By the end of the debate, Clinton didn’t have a hair out of place. She was never caught off guard or unable to answer a question. Trump was reduced to defending his statements on women by saying “Rosie O’Donnell… deserves it and nobody feels sorry for her” while patting himself on the back for not similarly assaulting Hillary and her family.

If this debate was any indication of how each candidate would handle the pressures of the presidency, then it’s very clear who’s ready to lead this country and who’s still behaving like he can lie and bully his way to the top.

There are some people who will support Trump no matter what. They don’t care what the fact checkers say is true, or what the experts say is the right move for the country. They’ll say Donald Trump won the debate because he was “passionate,” or “angry on behalf of Americans.”

It’s not enough that Hillary got the facts right and kept her cool, they’ll say she was too happy while talking about America’s struggles. Or that she smiled wrong. Or that she was too mean. Or that she’s just plain unlikeable.

When you’re watching the rest of these debates, and for the rest of this election, don’t let your belief in or distaste for one candidate sway you. Listen to the fact checkers, seek out the experts and look to the future.

What matters in this election is finding the strength and leadership to guide this country, not petulance and ignorance that will hold us back.