There's No Question About This - If A Dem Former Pres Was The Subject Of What TFG Is.....

[global1]

that Dem would have been locked up by now. The Repugs would be relentless in their crucifying a Dem.

Why does TFG always get the benefit of the doubt?

[Vinca]

1. I will never understand the adoration of the orange grifter. He's skated on everything from racial

discrimination to money laundering to sexual assault and expects to get by on what is essentially treason this time around. I'm hoping the FBI got info that he sold some secrets to someone in exchange for large piles of loot.

[Irish_Dem]

2. We have a multi-tiered justice system. The GOP is at the top. Dems at the bottom.

GOP presidents are at the very top, with total immunity.

[RussBLib]

8. But Trumpers have been convinced that....

....it is actually the other way around.

I'm not so sure Trump is a master conman anymore. I lean more towards the simple maxim
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
Some people, at least. Enough people, apparently, especially those who are already not too smart and have strong prejudices.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Most sociopaths like to claim victimhood as a manipulation.

Since they GOP is now a crime syndicate, not a political party, they operate like sociopaths.

Yes Trump is at a crossroads right now. He could go down the drain, or he could double down and run for office again, maintain his hold on the GOP and raise more money. In addition if he runs again he is immune from legal consequences for his many crimes.

[Karadeniz]

3. Because political thinking is more a product of emotions than reason... recent post about that.

However, I think that's incomplete. The emotion in this case is Ego, which I have come to realize is a hugely destructive product of the human brain. For about half of us, Ego can be balanced by soul input, creating a balanced Mind. Social norms could also function as a balancing agent, but our materialistic culture appeals to the likewise material brain. Provable aspects of Mind should be taught in school!

[JohnSJ]

4. What the Democrats need to do is call republicans out for calling for dismantling the FBI,

The espionage act, (rand Paul), the DOJ, and the very institutions that protect the security of the country

Push the theme that the republicans are anti-American with those views, along with their supporting of lies and misinformation

[Initech]

5. Because of the AM radio / Murdoch propaganda machine.

The propaganda is a major problem and it has a stranglehold on half the country. If we are going to make any progress in this country, we need to address the hate radio propaganda machine.

[CousinIT]

6. PRIVILEGE

Privilege to break any laws at will with utter impunity (rules, processes, morals, laws don't apply to them)

Privilege: they believe only THEY get to make the rules that OTHERS have to follow.

Privilege: they believe those self-same rules just don't apply to THEM.

This PRIVILEGE allows them to excise demographics of people that they don't consider human, American, or worthy of any rights or assistance or the franchise, so they can deny them those basic rights that they believe only the PRIVILEGED should enjoy.

When they are denied such abject PRIVILEGE, they become grievous, angry, and violent. Their entire political platform is now based on this petty grievance, punishing those who dare demand PRIVILEGE that they believe only belongs to them - via disenfranchisement, reproductive slavery, social, legal and economic exclusion. This is what the current structure of the US Supreme Court is all about. This is their entire purpose now.

[Mr. Ected]

7. Because we don't control the media and therefore the conversation

He doesn't really get the benefit of the doubt from the vast majority of Americans...you'd just never know it.

VOTE!!!