LordJiro: LordJiro: PaulRB: skyotter: I would love to see Democrats play low-ball the way Republicans do.

I have no expectation that Democrats will play low-ball the way Republicans do.

That's why they're Democrats. If they were criminals, liars, and cheaters, they'd be Republicans.

That's the primary difference between the two parties, and why Democrats struggle to fight back. The parties are not 'left-leaning' vs 'right-leaning', they're 'Actual politicians' vs. 'a hideous amalgamation of the mafia and a death cult, wearing the skin of a political party'.

The Democrats are trying to play by the old rules, where traditions, appearances and rules matter. Republicans are not bound by any of that shiat, but they're happy to weaponize it all against the Democrats.

It's like the old 'trying to play chess with a pigeon' analogy, except no matter how often the pigeon shiats on the board, the Democrats act like it made a legitimate move.

There is a another old norm not mentioned here and that is honor, which no longer applies to any Republican - but is what being an American is all about.  You can't be a liar, a cheater, a criminal, a win-at-all-costs creep - and still have honor.

The hero in any work of fiction, who does the right thing, is an honorable person.  Does Donald Trump have honor?  Did he ever have honor?  I would argue no, which is why his lying non-stop is so despicable.  He stirs up a rather gullible and possibly not very bright audience of Americans who automatically believe what the President says is true (whichever president).  Because, in the past this was generally the case.  But Trump lies more than possible anyone has ever publicly lied.   If they gave out Gold medals in lying, we know who'd be the winner.  And we know how much Donnie loves gold.  I'm sure he'd be stupidly proud.

To some, to think the President would constantly lie to their faces can't possibly be true!  They'd think "maybe he's right with his talk of conspiracies."  My biggest fear with the shamelessness of this swindler was that he'd get the benefit of the doubt from voters who don't normally pay much attention to Trump's antics, but luckily for Democracy, not enough of these voters voted.  Luckily for Democrats, the pandemic got a lot of people to vote against Trump.  Suddenly more people were paying attention and noticing what a nightmare our President is (just for a few weeks longer).