You fail to mention that this guy also very much believes that your orange hero and his Maga movement are nazis 2.0.
He's definitely right about this. I actually listened to him on The Bulwark podcast a couple days ago. Liberals ignore the plight of working class white America in favor of poor and working class black & brown America. It's a big problem that needs fixing. And I totally get how aggrieved it has left white, blue collar America.
But it pales in comparison to the problem that Republicans in our government are causing, and it's just more cherry picking from you to try and make some gotcha point. The left DOES have the moral high ground on Republicans now, in every conceivable sense of the word. They're just being judgy about it when they should be much less so.
What problems do Republicans cause in government? I find the both parties use loopholes and the fringe to enact policy they want, particularly on issues that they can’t get through legislation. It is a by any means necessary approach. Politics has always been a dirty business, but it has gotten way worse over the years.
Anyone claiming that Democrats have moral high ground is somewhat laughable to me. I am not a fan of Donald Trump and I think he is a morally corrupt invidual. I also think Bill Clinton was morally bankrupt, but I find it interesting that the people who supported him think Trump is the anti-christ.
It seems to me that people turn a blind eye to the sins of people they ideologically agree with. Look at Hillary, there was no question the email server thing was illegal and she treated classified documents in a way that wasn’t proper. To the point that 30 thousand plus emails fell into foreign hands. Had they not been on her server, they probably don’t get hacked.
Either way, i get why people don’t like Trump. He is rude, arrogant and the list goes on. I don’t question if he has done things that are illegal. I just know many people, particularly career politicians seem to always be right on the edge of the line and routinely step over it and nothing happens.
However, the real shame of it is that what he did likely wasn’t illegal at all if you use the standards of what crimes actually get pursued. Non disclsoures by two private parties are not illegal, he didn’t use campaign money to pay for them, they were paid for by his organization. The question is whether the purpose was to help his campaign or not, was it an undeclared campaign contribution or not? That is the only question.
I don’t think any reasonable person would assume that the women who took the money to stay quiet would indeed actually stay quiet, which they didn’t. Every paper in the world reported it. I am really not sure what the point of all of it really was. Maybe to keep them from going on TV and giving a tell all interview.
Would you reasonably assume that looking back on how the media tried to burry the Hunter Biden laptop story was a favor to the democrats to get Joe Biden elected? There was plenty of credability to the story for anyone who cared to really know (as has been proven), yet it was suppressed. Now you can say the weren’t trying to get Biden elected, but we all know that just isn’t an honest take. It really isn’t any different. They should declare that as a gift to Joe Biden’s campaign, because that is what it was.
I view it like speeding, and while not a completely analogous example, If you were pulled over for going 58 in a 55 zone you would be pissed, I wouldn’t blame you. The law says you should get a ticket if you go over 55, but in practice that isn’t what happens and we should apply the “practice of the law” fairly.
The DA in Manhatten has a huge credability problem. He is on the record advocating for letting serious violent crime go virtually unpunished, but spend millions of dollars chasing Trump for what he claims was an intentional reporting error that by NY statute is a misdemeanor. Now he can make it a felony if he can say that misdemeanor was done to further another crime.
Should Al Sharpeton have been indicted for the numerous violations of campaign finance laws that he admitted too? No one blinked an eye other than him having to agree to pay back the money he illegally spent. There is one form a justice for those we like and one form for those we don’t, that is what many of the people who are up in arms really are pissed about. Not because they think Trump is some paragon of virtue.