Repubs should run a better candidate if they don't want people voting for a third party. Maybe someone who isn't racist, geriatric, suffering from dementia, or an insurrectionist.
"Just run someone we won't call mean names" is an impossible demand, because Democrats will never stop calling conservatives these things.
Not to say that Trump is the best Republicans have, he certainly is not. But the MSM would just say the same thing about the next guy. We're already seeing this with how JD Vance is getting treated.
Ted Cruz, one of my favorite presidential candidates, would never survive the current left wing media landscape. Neither would Vivek Ramaswamy or Rick Santorum, some of my other favorite presidential candidates.
Okay, but they’re qualitatively different. Saying Trump is geriatric, an attempted insurrectionist, sexist etc are sober descriptions of his behavior. The nicknames he comes up with like “Liddle Adam Schiff” are befitting of a preteen on a playground.
Trump brought us to this level of discourse - the constant juvenile practice of using demeaning nicknames for anyone he doesn’t see as on his side. It has cheapened our politics, like he has in general. What you’re complaining about is labeling. It’s not “mean names”, which seems to trivialize the serious intent in pointing out someone is racist or senile.
Democrats will never stop calling conservatives these things.
Which are responses to his constant barrage of insults based on looks/race/whatever else he makes up. Is no one allowed to retort now? You can't bemoan the "MSM" and "Democrats" when he is instigating this shit.
Harris criticises those quite regularly, as well as the policies he hasn't added to his platform which everyone understands to be something critical to a lot of one-issue voters: abortion.
but when insults are all you have left
A reminder that Trump pushed insults as his modus operandi from the very start; when people start pushing back in the same style you seem to have an issue.
They're not just names, unless you are deliberately ignoring reality.
He's not even a conservative. He just wants to shovel as much money as he can into his own pockets. He's stealing classified documents. He's completely unfit.
They mostly are, they are mostly just mean names propped up by lies/conspiracy theories. The tactics used by the MSM against Trump and a bully or abusive parent are almost identical.
He’s not even a conservative. He just wants to shovel as much money as he can into his own pockets. He’s stealing classified documents. He’s completely unfit.
The one thing we agree on is that Trump is not a conservative, so I'll take that common ground with you. He is comically farther to the left than almost anybody in the MAGA camp.
Not indisputably, as that was a civil case and therefore does not require evidence of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. If there was stronger evidence, he likely would have been tried criminally instead.
And no, this doesn't prove your point. You could have mentioned old school McCain and I wouldn't be thinking you're a terrible person, but the current Republican climate only lets the loudest, most hateful people rise their ranks. There are some stinkers in the Democrat's ranks, but I can't think of a single Republican of note that isn't terrible.
What wretched asshole would say such a thing? Unimaginable.
Still, it could be worse than the media saying it. Like it would take some of the lowest scum on the planet for someone in the context of running for or acting as president to say such a thing.
Seriously, to paraphrase, “he’s just a hero because he got captured. Well I like the ones who weren’t captured”. And this from a giant asshole who never served after claiming to have “bone spurs” and called STDs in the 70s “his personal vietnam”. It’s unimaginable that basically anyone supports that insanely stupid windbag, but here we are.
Which was tame compared to what he would have gone through had he gone the distance. He would have been hit with rape allegations if he won the nomination.