If feels as though Democrats, politicians especially, have to be perfect. If they dare make a mistake, Republicans tear them (us) apart. No matter how corrupt, ignorant, and narcissistic is the President the Republican's supports, any misstep by a Democrat leads to a gleeful, malicious feeding frenzy. Imagine if Obama had been caught on tape talking about grabbing women by the pussy; his political would have gone down in the flames of Hell. Trump was allowed to dismiss that statement as locker room talk. The Republican party has become mean, mean in its spirit, mean in its bones, mean at the very heart, headed by a man many of them secretly despise, as revealed by how they spoke of him before making him king.
They have, or had, as their weapons people like Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, men who are paid huge amounts of money specifically to be mean, to tear people down and stir up rage. These are the true trolls of the world. They honor no motive but winning Republican victories and planting doubt and ferocity in the minds of their viewers.
People like this know that no matter how openly they flaunt their hypocrisy, no matter how acidly they sneer, how cruel they are, how many lies they tell, the Dems simply haven't got it in us to retaliate in kind. History is going to have to shame these people. We don't seem to be able to.
This is not a call to arms from me to the Dems. Not at all. I'm proud of us and what we have accomplished. The fight for the soul, for the integrity, of this country won't be won by men and women who sink to the lowest level, but by those who rise above it. History will judge us, too.
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