(06-22-2020 10:01 AM)mrbig Wrote:  To the extent there is any "hysteria" on the left (as you put it), it is because we believe Trump is uniquely horrible.

Since you expect us to accept that your "hysteria" (or whatever you want to call it) is based upon your belief that Trump is uniquely horrible, can you accept in return that we believe that Pelosi, Schumer, and Biden (and anyone on Biden's laundry list of VP running mates) are incredibly (I don't use "uniquely" because uniquely implies there is only one) horrible?

Quote:He's orders of magnitude worse (IMO) than Rubio, Kacich, Jeb, Cruz, etc. would have been.

I would have preferred any of those to Trump in 2016, and OO (and I believe Tanq) have said the same thing. I think we all thought that Trump was the one republican who wasn't electable, when in retrospect he may have been the only one who could beat Hillary. Looking at 2020, my biggest reservation about Trump may be that he is capable of doing something stupid and thereby handing the election to the democrats.

The democrats are my enemies, because they support policy positions that I believe to be harmful to the USA, and particularly to me. Trump is no better than the enemy of my enemies, but that makes him a friend of sorts. It really is kind of like FDR and Churchill supporting Stalin against Hitler. That's an analogy, and the only historic one that comes to mind, not calling Trump Stalin (he's better than Stalin) or the democrats Hitler (they're better than Hitler), so don't go getting your panties in a wad.