Something is wrong with this split-screen picture. On one side, former president Donald Trump rants about mass deportations and claims to have stopped “wars with France,” after being described by his longest-serving White House chief of staff as a literal fascist. On the other side, commentators debate whether Vice President Kamala Harris performed well enough at a CNN town hall to “close the deal.”
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Let’s review: First, Harris was criticized for not doing enough interviews — so she did multiple interviews, including with nontraditional media. She was criticized for not doing hostile interviews — so she went toe to toe with Bret Baier of Fox News. She was criticized as being comfortable only at scripted rallies — so she did unscripted events, such as the town hall on Wednesday. Along the way, she wiped the floor with Trump during their one televised debate.
Trump, meanwhile, stands before his MAGA crowds and spews nonstop lies, ominous threats, impossible promises and utter gibberish. His rhetoric is dismissed, or looked past, without first being interrogated.
“I dont vote for right wingers on the right or the left” is the closest I can get to a single standard to apply to all candidates. But its more nuanced than that, so you’re barking up the wrong tree.
We’re not electing just a president, we’re also electing a party to control a branch of government. One candidate (Trump) no Dem I know would vote for anyway, so theres nothing that candidate could do to get our vote. There is no standard to apply to them.
The other is a mixed bag and the only one we’d ever vote for, with the alternative of not voting at all. We are trying to pressure that person to either be better or lose, and it sure looks like they are close to losing and are reaching for every vote they can get. Its completely rational. And you’re welcome-- people like me do the work so centrists can smugly sit on their hands and snottily preach while doing absolutely nothing to make anything better. Did you vote uncommitted in the primary? no? then shut it.
But getting back on track-- Your calling it a double standard presupposes that there should be a single standard for both candidates and thats an absurd take. I’ll never enable the repubs no matter if they ran a better candidate because of the awfulness of the rest of their platformand their awful way of governing, and awful donors and platform. So they dont even get considered even from the start.
OP, Surely you can understand this and are just playing at not getting it. Do you lack the empathy at all to even understand this? I guess I shouldnt be surprised. Kamala doesnt seem to understand she’s not running against just trump ,she’s running against party expectations who are disappointed in her right wing slant on so many issues. When she is called to answer for it, she moves the conversation to trump. It doesnt work.