What would he have to do for me to vote for a socialist and throw our country into a horrible direction structurally? Uh, a lot.
The Ukraine thing is a giant nothing burger. Guarantee whatever the Bidens did was worse. And every politician is corrupt to a degree.
So am I going to toss aside capitalism for that? Lol.
These are such cop out responses. I’m not asking if you’ll vote for a socialist, I’m asking how many laws you’re willing to let the President break before you stop defending him and trying to justify his behavior. You’re creating a false choice.
And to excuse illegal behavior by the President because “whatever the Bidens did was worse” again smacks of intellectual dishonesty.
It would see to me that someone who is conservative and wants smaller government would be alarmed when the President’s defense in an impeachment trial is based around the President being incapable of breaking the law by the nature of the Presidency. This was Nixon’s argument as well. It would also seem it would be disturbing to any American when the President begins retaliating against witnesses in a trial.
And think about that. If the President can use the Justice Department to interfere in individual cases and sentences, where does that stop? I’ll never understand how someone could not be tremendously bothered by that kind of action by the President.
But Trump supporters don’t seem to care one bit about the way that the government is pushing more and more power to the executive all the time and the ramifications that could have not just in a second Trump term but in the long therm with future Presidents and the way they may be able to give themselves more authority.
If Trump was just about cutting taxes, reducing regulation, cutting spending on entitlements, and some of the other policy positions he’s gone over, then I’d have far less issue with him. I’d certainly vote for him over someone like Bernie Sanders. But this President seems determined to make himself as close to an authoritarian leader as America has ever seen and no one seems willing to hold him accountable for it.
So the question isn’t will you vote for a socialist or are other politicians corrupt or how bad are the Bidens or have other Presidents done bad things, the question is how far are people willing to let the President go in his amassing power and ignoring the rule of law and separation of powers before they stop defending him by talking about how great the economy is?
The economy is important, personal financial gain is important, but so is the constitution and so is the rule of law.
