2016 Postmortem

....you just defined the double standard that is and always has been the downfall of Democrats. They ARE held to a MUCH higher ethical standard than Republicans.

JUST LOOK at all the crap SHitler has done or refused to do or that he is involved in and ask yourself what would happen if he was a Democrat? The gov't would be shut down. It would be on the TV 24 x 7 x 365. There would be investigations out the ass. NO WAY would that person E V E R make it into the Oval office.

We have laws. We have a constitution. We have what we consider treason and impeachable offenses. Trump has violated EVERY ONE OF THOSE THINGS. As a candidate and as a candidate-elect. Yet ... NOTHING is done, and NOTHING will be done.

DOUBLE. STANDARD.

So to answer your question: "So we're supposed to believe that the weekly Trump scandals were all ineffective but this one letter from Comey convinced hundreds of thousands of people to change their vote at the last minute or stay home?"

YEP. Because that's the double standard and the pro-GOP corprat propaganda at work and that has been at work here in the US for DECADES. HRC was DEMONIZED by the corporate media while everything nasty-ass thing Trump did or said and every law or ethical standard he violated went unmentioned. And still does.

I keep hearing "Oh he'll be impeached." or "he's violating the constitution" or "he did or said blah and that's against the law"

SO. WHAT.

Because NOBODY IS GOING TO DO ANYTHING TO HIM. Laws, constitutions, ethics, morals, treasonous acts, impeachable acts -- NONE of that apply to Donald Trump.

NOBODY will stop him. E V E R. No matter WHAT he does. The laws and norms simply do not apply to Republicans. At all. They ONLY apply to Democrats and the rest of us commoners.

So...yea. There's that.