The good ones are easily brought down because they won’t play dirty like their rivals. There are too many voters who lap up the lies as if they had been starving, and they will fight to keep that trough full, facts be damned. DJT has emboldened others to lie and lie big, to break the law and violate ethics with impunity, and to whine and play victim when they are called out. After all, if the “ greatest country on earth” idolizes this behavior, it must be ok.
I'd say good ones are not only brought down, but worn out, driven out by exhaustion. It is *hard* to stand up to dirty rivals while trying to stay clean yourself--and the people who claim to support good often demand perfect adherence to whatever they regard as purity. At its best, politics involves compromise and negotiation. Purists won't acknowledge that. The slightest perception of a flaw in the purity of a good champion turns the purists into adversaries of the champion too, alongside the nefarious.
The good ones are easily brought down because they won’t play dirty like their rivals. There are too many voters who lap up the lies as if they had been starving, and they will fight to keep that trough full, facts be damned. DJT has emboldened others to lie and lie big, to break the law and violate ethics with impunity, and to whine and play victim when they are called out. After all, if the “ greatest country on earth” idolizes this behavior, it must be ok.
I'd say good ones are not only brought down, but worn out, driven out by exhaustion. It is *hard* to stand up to dirty rivals while trying to stay clean yourself--and the people who claim to support good often demand perfect adherence to whatever they regard as purity. At its best, politics involves compromise and negotiation. Purists won't acknowledge that. The slightest perception of a flaw in the purity of a good champion turns the purists into adversaries of the champion too, alongside the nefarious.