Yes, I follow you.
A few problems:
1. JD Vance went from being a Never Trumper, to a devotee over night. So either he was lying (to us) about his political angle then, or he is lying (to you) about his political angle now.
2. What you’re saying kind of ignores the entire dynamic between the left and the right. The left attacks by defending. They get triggered, and stand up for the rights of everyone usually by calling for someone to resign or (since that’s usually unreasonable) cancelled, which I don’t particularly like. However, the right defends by attacking. They have historical positioning on their side. And so they start amplifying the political climate around enforcing various rules, under the assumption (which isn’t necessarily true) that the rules will benefit them.
In general, Trumps behavior over the last 8 years has been entirely inexcusable from a civil-servant point of view. There was a time in this country when it would have been completely normal to say “The president is my employee I pay his salary, the idea that he is above the law is insane.” Well, the Trump-packed conservative Heritage foundation Supreme Court have been laying the groundwork to grant the president the privileges and rights of a monarch. And it’s being rationalized by Trump’s base by the continued cling to a con that it’s just the fault of lazy and greedy elites.
The real issue is the way tools of power actually work. If you have enough money you can dodge taxes, and pay people to argue for the rules to be changed in your favor. And that results in bad schools, bad food, GREAT distractions, and the widespread decline of basic life skills, one of which is sensible civic discourse and political participation. We’ve had 40 years of that. 35 if you assume the trend ended with trump’s election, 44 if you assume Trump’s election is a symptom of the dysfunction.
The reason I don’t follow his point is because it’s not an issue of logical consistency it’s an issue of semantics.
Any reasonable person, who’s been paying attention, REAL attention, not just participating in rallies or cheerleading, knows that what Biden meant was “the death threats, violent acts, have no place in our democracy and public discourse.” The degree of chaos and stupidity on the left may be greater than that on the right, but the degree of organized discontent, and latent aggression from the MAGA camp is SUBSTANTIALLY more dangerous, because they claim to speak for “Law and order” and then betray that very ideal.
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