I don't know a lot about Rosanne Barr. She has made the news more than once with some vile thing she did or said, and is someone I wouldn't want to watch or listen to. I won't list all of her offences here, but I will mention the one I consider to be one of the worst: she wished cancer on anyone who eats at Chik fil a.
But now many conservatives and "conservative" radio hosts such as Sean Bully Hannity and Rush Ego Limbaugh are defending this woman.
I know enough about Kanye West to know he isn't a very nice guy, and has said and done his share of stupid things that are offensive, but yet again many conservatives and "conservative" radio hosts have been defending him.
What do these 2 individuals have in common? They both are pro-Trump. I am no rocket scientist, but I can see what is going on. Since these 2 rather offensive individuals praised Trump, his most loyal supporters feel the same urgent need to defend them that they feel about defending Trump. Poor Hillary... if she'd just go pro-Trump, my party would leave her alone and defend her.......
Donald Trump has lowered the bar for what is good and moral.
Before Trump, conservatives were against strip club owners.
Before Trump, conservatives were against adultery.
Before Trump, someone who donated to and supported liberals for years would not have got the conservative vote.
Before Trump, conservatives would have been horrified at a lot of things a man like him has said and done.
Before Trump, personal attacks and bullying were wrong.
Before Trump, a man who bragged about grabbing women by the genitals would have been labeled a pervert and sleazebag.
I find myself wondering what it will look like in a post-Trump America. Will conservatives go back to opposing everything in Democrats that they have accepted and defended in Trump, or has he changed the Republican Party forever so they will accept and defend this stuff in any candidate? Will a candidate's past again matter?
I could not vote for Trump, and still feel right about that decision..... and doubt I will vote for him if, God forbid, he is the GOP candidate in 2020. But I get that people voted for him out of fear of getting his buddy Hillary......even though he said she'd make a great president. I guess that is one lie of his they didn't believe.......
But it is one thing to vote for the lesser of two evils, and defending every evil in that lesser evil. I have never seen such an intense defense of a politician and attempts to shut down criticism since Obama. In fact, the die hard Trump supporters act a lot like Obama supporters. Neither can muster a true defense of the facts, so they attack. With Obama, you were a racist if you were against him. With Trump, you are a liberal, pro-Hillary, judgmental, etc, if you are against him. Same playbook, same tactics.
Answer this in your mind: if a Christian defends Trump's vulgarity, his strip clubs, his serial adultery, his bullying and personal attacks, his bragging about grabbing women by their genitals,etc....what moral right do they have to stand against anything? Homosexuality, gay marriage, pornography.....you name it. We can't pick sins we are OK with because the candidate has an "R" by his name.
If it is wrong for a Democrat, it is wrong for anyone with an "R" by their name. If we oppose it in a Democrat, we must oppose it in someone with an "R" by their name. (Sorry, I will not call Trump a Republican or conservative.)
If you are a big Trump supporter, you have no idea what it is like for we who are conservatives who do not support him. It is like Alice Through the Looking Glass...everything is backwards and upside down. If I call out Trump for his liberal past, his donating to liberals, his fighting the Tea Party, etc..... I get called a liberal - and that happened. If you can figure out how I am like a liberal for pointing out Trump's liberal past, please explain it to me......for it is possibly the most insane and ludicrous thing said about me.
I still can't understand how a man like Donald Trump won the primary of the party of the so-called Christians and conservatives......nor why his supporters so hotly defend everything he says and does. If you feel the need to defend him so much, maybe that should tell you something.
Donald Trump has caused the Republican Party to lose any moral compass we ever had. We as a party owe an apology to Bill Clinton, and other Democrats we have called out for moral failures and other things Trump is guilty of.
Back during the election when I was outspoken about Trump's adultery and strip clubs, a woman from my church commented and said with my past, I should be OK with that stuff. If I had it to do over again, I wish I had replied with this: "You don't know me well enough to make assumptions or statements like that. You are rarely at church, and are not a part of my life. You don't know me." I don't remember if I even replied. She un-friended me after that.
I said that to preface this: for years, I hid the fact that I am attracted to the same sex. I was terrified of people at church and other Christians I knew finding out the truth. I always had the desire to do right and serve God, so I am not discounting that when I make this next statement: the Christians in my life are also a large part of the reason I never "came out" as gay and openly lived the gay lifestyle.
Now many of these same people are defending immorality in Trump and attacking anyone for calling it out. What right do they have to judge or criticize gay people who are living the gay lifestyle, if they are OK and defend Trump's sins? What right do they have to fight gay marriage if they defend Trump's serial adultery? If I wanted double standards, I would be a Democrat.
See, that is what we #neverTrump people want: consistency. We want Donald Trump held to the same standards we have held politicians to before he came along. He won the primary - unfortunately - leaving us with 2 bad choices, and somehow beat the woman he said would make a great president........but that doesn't mean he gets a free pass on everything. That doesn't mean people have to practically worship him as Obama's supporters did. That doesn't mean sinful celebrities who praise him should suddenly gain the support of conservatives.
The bar has been lowered. What will we do about that in the future?
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