(from Facebook 2-12-20)
French comes so close:
"she doesn’t *(necessarily)* like Trump’s lying, but the Democrats lie too"
"millions of Christians have not just decided to hire a hater *(to defend them from haters)* and to hire a liar *(to defend them from liars)*"
The pejoratives are marked in *( )*
The point is -- they have to "hire a liar" whatever they hire one for; so the allusion to hypocrisy is an unnecessary insult.
The question is which liar are you going to hire?
You have to hire one whether or not you hate your enemy, you can't just leave it to your enemy to do the hiring, or not hire because you love your enemy.
Politics and government deal with raw power and they attract the sorts of people who are attracted to that.
He does admit: "they actively ignore, rationalize, minimize, or deny Trump’s sins. They do this in part because they can’t bring themselves to face the truth about Trump and in part because they know it is difficult to build and sustain a political movement if you’re constantly (or even frequently) criticizing the misconduct of its leader" but he over-eggs again,
It's not that they can't face the truth, but what are they going to do about it? Vote for the other guy? The Democrats?
Hating on your enemies is bad enough, but it's no reason to vote for your enemy instead.
These defenses of Trump are not actual justifications to Trump supporters, but they are defenses to his opponents. That the Democrats are as bad is no justification to the republicans but it should be enough to neutralize to the Democrats claims.
His downplaying of abortion as the distinction is ridiculous as it forces the reader to decide which is worse: apparently (but not really) assenting to hating on your enemies, or just as apparently assenting to the shedding of the innocent blood of babies?
French can't make an issue of the hating (and transfer it to the voters) without doing the same for the killing.
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