Comment by ericmay
16 hours ago
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but it has been that way for a long time. The only difference is Trump is doing it out in the open.
16 hours ago
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but it has been that way for a long time. The only difference is Trump is doing it out in the open.
That's more or less exactly what someone who wants to openly get away with it would tell you.
Are you saying OP is Donald Trump!?
This exactly. The conservative MO has been to accuse everyone else of doing exactly what conservatives do in the shadows, and once everyone believes non-conservatives are corrupt in a certain manner, conservatives goes mask off.
Then their supporters shrug their shoulders and say, "Meh, it's okay because everyone else does it." Except that everyone does NOT do these things. It's just the lie campaign took hold.
Donald Trump belongs in jail for January 6th (among other things) and it's not ok. But pearl-clutching only about Donald Trump doing it is dumb and doesn't solve the problem.
We should oppose corruption and graft everywhere at all times (within our systems), and prior Republican and Democratic administrations (never mind Congress) have done the exact types of things that Trump is doing now. It happens at local levels too, not just at the federal level. If you want to play team sport when it comes to corruption you're simply part of the problem.
That is woefully naive. But even if so: aren’t you against it?
It's not naive. In fact any comment to the contrary of what I wrote would be naive.
Yes of course I'm against it. I'm against it when Donald Trump does it, and I'm also against it when my local government does it, or Nancy Pelosi does it.
There is, however, a question of scale.
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