Double Standard

HALF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY believes that the very notion that Russians interfered with and aided Trump's election is patently absurd, a wild rumor, a liberal hoax. The other half of the G.O.P. believes that if the Russians did meddle, its no big deal, no harm, no foul. These are the same people whose profound concern for national security caused them to demand the arrest and incarceration of Hillary Clinton for using a personal email server while Secretary of State. Can you imagine the republicans if Hillary were president, and the FBI announced that the Russians had tried to help her get elected? Manic chants of "lock her up!" would once again echo across the fruited plain. This double standard, this lack of decency and integrity among Trump supporters in particular and conservatives in general is astonishing. But, on the other hand, what should we expect from people who knowingly voted for a self proclaimed sexual predator? And no, it is most assuredly not unfair to label the president so. Trump supporters will soon begin distancing themselves from the president, on the grounds that, well, neither candidate was acceptable, so I voted for Trump just to keep Hillary out. No, this is not an acceptable argument. The righteous right could have mounted a furious Ted Cruz movement to replace Trump the day after the release of Trump's horrible recording, the one with him bragging about getting away with sex crimes because of his fame and wealth. The moral majority could have gotten the rest of the conservative community to cooperate, because, morally, there was no other choice. Ted Cruz may be nutty and weird, but he certainly seems to embody conservative Christian values more abundantly than our president. Hillary, with never a parking ticket, and Trump, the consummate bad guy. Again, you conservatives got it backwards.