Trump-Bashing
Sep. 9th, 2020 08:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dogriverI'm absolutely no fan of Trump, and I've made that very clear throughout this blog, but it amazes me how some people hate him so much that they have adopted double standards when it comes to judging him.
Take the accusations in The Atlantic about what he supposedly said about dead soldiers. If that article is to be accepted at face value, Trump made these comments two years ago. They did not surface for another two years, and then two months before a major election, a bunch of anonymous people come forward to reveal all. If this had been anyone but Trump, would anyone accept that kind of evidence? I'm not saying that the people who do accept this evidence are deliberately engaging in double standards, but passionate anti-Trump sentiment in an era where tell-all books against Trump come out every week, where some reporter is always unearthing some horrible thing he said, did, or thought, leads to people accepting things that they would not normally accept. They want Trump gone so badly, they'll believe anything negative, and they won't apply the normal rules of due diligence to accept that negativity.
Yesterday, I was accused of seeing things too black and white by suggesting that sources of such incredibly alarming charges should be scrutinized and examined under the microscope. In doing this, while I know Trump has said my awful things, I honestly have come to the conclusion that he probably didn't call dead soldiers losers, for example. Maybe I'm wrong, but the coincidence of the timing and the safety of anonymity raise a lot of red flags with me, and I feel as though I'm the only person who opposes Trump who takes this view.
Take the accusations in The Atlantic about what he supposedly said about dead soldiers. If that article is to be accepted at face value, Trump made these comments two years ago. They did not surface for another two years, and then two months before a major election, a bunch of anonymous people come forward to reveal all. If this had been anyone but Trump, would anyone accept that kind of evidence? I'm not saying that the people who do accept this evidence are deliberately engaging in double standards, but passionate anti-Trump sentiment in an era where tell-all books against Trump come out every week, where some reporter is always unearthing some horrible thing he said, did, or thought, leads to people accepting things that they would not normally accept. They want Trump gone so badly, they'll believe anything negative, and they won't apply the normal rules of due diligence to accept that negativity.
Yesterday, I was accused of seeing things too black and white by suggesting that sources of such incredibly alarming charges should be scrutinized and examined under the microscope. In doing this, while I know Trump has said my awful things, I honestly have come to the conclusion that he probably didn't call dead soldiers losers, for example. Maybe I'm wrong, but the coincidence of the timing and the safety of anonymity raise a lot of red flags with me, and I feel as though I'm the only person who opposes Trump who takes this view.
