Pretend Clinton did what Trump has done: Our view

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3. I happened to post about this yesterday on FB

The question was posted by a friend-of-a-friend: "What did Trump do today to piss Liberals off? Breathe?"

I answered that every day Trump does six or seven things that would have gotten Clinton assassinated, but his cowardly GOP enablers are like whatevs.


As noted upthread, we can speculate pointlessly all day about what might have happened if Obama or Clinton had done these things. It seems likely that this congress would have impeached any Democratic president who acted as Trump acts. Certainly the GOP would approve no cabinet nominees, and they would blame the resultant chaos on the Democratic president's "refusal" to nominate someone who represents the values of the American people blah blah blah. And the media would run with it, casting the Democrat as the out-of-touch elitist who can't even manage to staff their own cabinet.

I also rather suspect that Rightwing demagogues would "subtly" and steadily hint at the need for uprising or "some other action," culminating in an assassination attempt.