trenchfoot
Lifer
- Aug 5, 2000
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I always bring this up but during the 2016 campaign, supporters always get asked about his infidelity. What, I’m not voting him for Pope!!! Like shouldn’t POTUS be held to the highest standards?
Trump won over his other Repub contenders based on how he could out-lie and out-shout and out-con the others. Standards got thrown out the window when Trump controlled the narrative in his favor, a narrative that was nothing more than empty promises, crude insults and catchy phrases that had no relationship with reality. He won over Clinton with the same schtick along with incessantly stabbing at Clinton's vulnerabilities of which were mostly fabricated, although it didn't make a microgram of difference to his newly gained cult following.
For Trump's fan base, he created his own bottom of the barrel level of standards because it was impossible for him to rise to the level of his competition and his followers glossed over it by creating an false image of him that they could cheer on and onward into oblivion. He is a poison pill that the party faithful swallowed, are feeling the effects thereof and are ignoring the symptoms, mostly to spite his critics, some in order to keep the faith in someone who would slit their throats if he thought it would somehow be to his benefit.


