Someone tell Trump supporters two wrongs don't make a right
by Quin Hillyer
August 03, 2018 11:45 AM This isn’t about who should have been elected president in 2016; it’s about what is or isn’t acceptable behavior from any president or his staff, today or at any time.
It is long past time for leaders of the conservative movement, the conservative commentariat, and the Republican Party to begin insisting again on standards of decency, rather than embracing double standards or the morally fraught resort to “whataboutism.â€
Almost daily, leaders or pundits or activists, who formerly seemed to know better, now deflect criticism of misbehavior by Trump or his supporters by irrelevant comparisons – as if some earlier offenses by liberals excuse today’s transgressions by conservatives’ own side.
For example, it doesn’t matter if “our side†does bad stuff, because we can ask “what about†what the Left did at another point.
So, for example, without saying a word against the vile behavior by Trump fans against press covering a rally in Tampa, one conservative activist belittled the complaints of one of the abused reporters by tweeting that “it would have been really traumatizing†to have been shot at like Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., was last year. (The activist is a friend, so I won’t name him, especially because I could use dozens or hundreds of examples interchangeably and it’s not fair to single him out.)
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