I see so many false equivalences made. The Russian involvement in the last election is unprecedented. We also know the campaign, including Donald Trump Jr., was at least peripherally involved in an attempt to get some dirt on the Democrats. Whether that rises to the level of collusion and if that is actionable are things left up to the investigators or the courts, but the President's denials and attempts to shut down the investigations appear to be rather telling to me. We'll have to wait and see. I don't want to see this country damaged any more than it is. I don't know if things will be worse with Trump or with the impeachment of Trump. At this point, America has just gone bananas.
One distinct thing comes to mind when parsing the differences between Republicans and Democrats these days. Do you remember John Edwards? Politically, he's everything progressives could want, but we all turned our backs on him when his shenanigans came to light. Our party had suffered through Bill Clinton and didn't want any more of that malarkey. When Trump's shenanigans and criminal behavior (yes, defrauding students at a fake college is criminal - he just settled so it wouldn't go that far) and even worse behavior came to light, none of it mattered. "Aw, he's just a man." "Oh, his joking about forced rape is just locker room talk!"Um...no it isn't and Trump is not some jock hanging around in locker rooms. My gawd, look at that guy. He's never jogged around the block once in his life. Just saying, the "locker room" thing is just at tag line intended to give him an excuse and swagger that he doesn't deserve and he hasn't earned. This difference here is not nothing. Both the parties have a long way to go, but we moved forward while conservatives keep rocking backwards.
Even though I think the Conservative ideals, the GOP platform and Trump's platform (actually three distinctively different things) are incorrect, I'm not really as angry over that. I can respectfully disagree with much of that much of the time. What I cannot abide is this grotesque person, Donald J. Trump, and his reprehensible behavior. He's cruel, he's a liar and a bully. There's no excuse for that no matter what his views. I have not seen an American candidate be as horrible as he is in my lifetime. I'm confounded by the reasoning and excuses made for him. Would all of y'all be making them if he were a Democrat? He was just that less than a decade ago and I wouldn't have supported him then either.