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Originally Posted by dobbles
But yet after all this Trump barely lost. McConnel is still in charge. Graham is still around. The supreme court got 3 justices via Trump. So maybe 'no one bats an eye' was a bad choice of words. It was more in reference to there being no actual consequences to these actions. How many times Did Steve King of Iowa have to be an absolute jackwagon before anything happened? How bad of a person did Roy Moore have to be to barely lose a special election? How many things did Trump do that would have ended any previous politicians entire career?
Yet, here we have an election where democrats won the presidency, made small gains in the senate, but lost a handful in the house, and we have all this handwringing about the democratic party being too extreme?
73 million people voted for Trump. And this isn't like 2016 where you can say people just didn't like Clinton or were trying to start fresh with an outsider. As you mention, we all know what Trump is. And that's where I am coming from when saying the republican party can do just about whatever they want without consequence.
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The unfortunate truth is that the Democrats are held to a different standard by their supporters than the Republicans are held to by their supporters. What is good for the goose is not good for the gander. Something that would inflame Democrat supporters is met with a shrug from Republican supporters, and this would not matter which member actually did the action or said the word.
Until the Republican supporters tighten up in what they consider to be acceptable, this will continue... and I don’t see any change anytime soon.