Repubs should run a better candidate if they don’t want people voting for a third party. Maybe someone who isn’t racist, geriatric, suffering from dementia, or an insurrectionist.
“Just run someone we won’t call mean names” is an impossible demand, because Democrats will never stop calling conservatives these things.
Not to say that Trump is the best Republicans have, he certainly is not. But the MSM would just say the same thing about the next guy. We’re already seeing this with how JD Vance is getting treated.
Ted Cruz, one of my favorite presidential candidates, would never survive the current left wing media landscape. Neither would Vivek Ramaswamy or Rick Santorum, some of my other favorite presidential candidates.
Ted Cruz, one of my favorite presidential candidates, would never survive the current left wing media landscape.
He couldn’t survive Trump insulting his wife and calling him a liar.
Which was tame compared to what he would have gone through had he gone the distance. He would have been hit with rape allegations if he won the nomination.
Pretty absurd to say Democrats call people “mean names” given this list of “mean names” trump has used over the years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nicknames_used_by_Donald_Trump
Not really. Trump calling people names doesn’t disprove that others have called him names.
Sure. Nobody was trying to prove that. However, whining about it in his support is hypocrisy.
True. To be fair though, I don’t support his namecalling.
Yet you highlight this:
Democrats will never stop calling conservatives these things.
Which are responses to his constant barrage of insults based on looks/race/whatever else he makes up. Is no one allowed to retort now? You can’t bemoan the “MSM” and “Democrats” when he is instigating this shit.
Retorting to some extent is understandable, but when insults are all you have left, it betrays a weakness of your political position.
You will hear Trump criticize left wing policies day in and day out, but rarely will Democrats criticize Trump’s policies.
Okay, but they’re qualitatively different. Saying Trump is geriatric, an attempted insurrectionist, sexist etc are sober descriptions of his behavior. The nicknames he comes up with like “Liddle Adam Schiff” are befitting of a preteen on a playground.
Trump brought us to this level of discourse - the constant juvenile practice of using demeaning nicknames for anyone he doesn’t see as on his side. It has cheapened our politics, like he has in general. What you’re complaining about is labeling. It’s not “mean names”, which seems to trivialize the serious intent in pointing out someone is racist or senile.
Broken record.
I agree, that also. Constantly going on about superficial crowd size nonsense and his 2020 election lies.
What does that even mean? We’re supposed to find new flaws to call out about Trump rather than recounting the most obvious serious ones?
I think people having choice is a good thing.
