What’s continuously frustrating for me is how Trump’s behavior and his supporter’s admiration for him reveals a glaring double standard.
He’s intentionally cruel, antagonizing and offensive. He’s the most divisive and polarizing public figure in recent memory.
Trump feeds off of toxicity. He regularly uses inflammatory rhetoric to rile up his MAGA base; appealing to their fears, their hatred and their many grievances.
He’s a demagogue through and through, and he frequently resorts to name-calling, mockery and incivility.
His supporters cheer for him whenever he posts some crude, tasteless “joke” or attempt at “trolling” on social media. And in doing so, they fail to recognize the implications of normalizing this type of behavior which is unbecoming of anybody, let alone the fucking president of the United States.
But with all of that said, if any Democrat, or even Democrat-aligned figure dares to give Trump a taste of his own medicine, his supporters lose their collective minds over it.
The cognitive dissonance, the hypocrisy, the double standard—whatever you want to call it—is baffling.
They make every excuse for Trump, but when someone finally pushes back, it’s knives out.
Beyond that, his followers act like Trump is incapable of wrongdoing, like he is above the law, like he’s a damn God or a saint. Any investigation into Trump’s criminal misconduct or corruption is instinctively deemed a “witch hunt.”
But at the same time, Trump, his allies and his followers encourage partisan prosecutions of his opponents and take no issue with the fact that Trump is the one “weaponizing the justice department” and every power and agency of the federal government against his political enemies, his critics, and anyone who has ever tried to hold him accountable for that matter.
They’re all so fragile and hypocritical, incessantly lamenting their “persecution” and “censorship” at the hands of some nebulous, “deep state” enemy; crying victim at every opportunity and stirring themselves up into a moral panic whenever another culture war, “woke” boogeyman emerges—which is often.
They’re under the impression that they’re being relentlessly oppressed by some imaginary and shadowy “enemy” or “invader,” but cannot bring themselves to acknowledge or at least admit publicly that Trump is an authoritarian.
MAGA won’t tolerate the slightest discourtesy. Every protest, objection or legal challenge amounts to an extreme offense.
But they’ll never accept that Trump has stripped the presidency of all its dignity, that Trump and his enablers are the ones flouting the law, violating the constitution, suppressing civil rights and liberties, tyrannizing the public, normalizing dictatorship, prosecuting their enemies, monetizing the presidency, covering up crimes and corruption scandals, taking bribes, committing war crimes and flagrant injustices, consolidating power, bypassing checks and balances, and among other things, eroding practically every Democratic norm imaginable—almost all things they’ve accused their opponents of doing.
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What’s continuously frustrating for me is how Trump’s behavior and his supporter’s admiration for him reveals a glaring double standard.
He’s intentionally cruel, antagonizing and offensive. He’s the most divisive and polarizing public figure in recent memory.
Trump feeds off of toxicity. He regularly uses inflammatory rhetoric to rile up his MAGA base; appealing to their fears, their hatred and their many grievances.
He’s a demagogue through and through, and he frequently resorts to name-calling, mockery and incivility.
His supporters cheer for him whenever he posts some crude, tasteless “joke” or attempt at “trolling” on social media. And in doing so, they fail to recognize the implications of normalizing this type of behavior which is unbecoming of anybody, let alone the fucking president of the United States.
But with all of that said, if any Democrat, or even Democrat-aligned figure dares to give Trump a taste of his own medicine, his supporters lose their collective minds over it.
The cognitive dissonance, the hypocrisy, the double standard—whatever you want to call it—is baffling.
They make every excuse for Trump, but when someone finally pushes back, it’s knives out.
Beyond that, his followers act like Trump is incapable of wrongdoing, like he is above the law, like he’s a damn God or a saint. Any investigation into Trump’s criminal misconduct or corruption is instinctively deemed a “witch hunt.”
But at the same time, Trump, his allies and his followers encourage partisan prosecutions of his opponents and take no issue with the fact that Trump is the one “weaponizing the justice department” and every power and agency of the federal government against his political enemies, his critics, and anyone who has ever tried to hold him accountable for that matter.
They’re all so fragile and hypocritical, incessantly lamenting their “persecution” and “censorship” at the hands of some nebulous, “deep state” enemy; crying victim at every opportunity and stirring themselves up into a moral panic whenever another culture war, “woke” boogeyman emerges—which is often.
They’re under the impression that they’re being relentlessly oppressed by some imaginary and shadowy “enemy” or “invader,” but cannot bring themselves to acknowledge or at least admit publicly that Trump is an authoritarian.
MAGA won’t tolerate the slightest discourtesy. Every protest, objection or legal challenge amounts to an extreme offense.
But they’ll never accept that Trump has stripped the presidency of all its dignity, that Trump and his enablers are the ones flouting the law, violating the constitution, suppressing civil rights and liberties, tyrannizing the public, normalizing dictatorship, prosecuting their enemies, monetizing the presidency, covering up crimes and corruption scandals, taking bribes, committing war crimes and flagrant injustices, consolidating power, bypassing checks and balances, and among other things, eroding practically every Democratic norm imaginable—almost all things they’ve accused their opponents of doing.