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Why doesn't "what if the roles were reversed" ever work? I mean it works for me. I actually am convinced when people bring up that argument. But it never works when conservatives say it to progressives.
Why I'm bringing this up is that recently Abdul El-Sayed's wife appeared on stage wearing something not dissimilar to an outfit from "Handmaid's Tale".
https://x.com/FedPoasting/status/2118389760070725932
What if the roles were reversed? What if Mike Pence or Mitt Romney or J.D. Vance of Pete Hegseth showed up like this?
I have a hard time explaining why this line of reasoning just does not land at all with progressives. To me it seems like a slam dunk. What am I missing? And is there a conservative equivalent to this, i.e. a meta role reversal where conservatives are the one being hypocrites?
Trump himself is an example. If there was a Democrat President who said that a veteran is not war hero because he got captured, had multiple sexual assault accusations against him, joked along the lines of "China, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find {trove of compromising information on his political opponent}", refused to accept losing an election and made phone calls to state politicians trying to get them to find more votes, had the speech and writing patterns of a 10 year old on methamphetamine, shilled a crypto coin named after himself while in office, etc... right-wingers would absolutely lose their shit.
Right-wingers lost their shit over Bill Clinton, as it was, over stuff like the sexual assault allegations and Whitewater, so this isn't hypothetical. A Democrat President who acted like Trump would cause an even bigger reaction.
Now, I know that some of Trump's actions can be defended by the argument of "well, he's just slinging mud back at the Democrats the way the Democrats have been slinging it at us". But then we'd have to go back in history and play "who started it", which isn't really possible to answer since the two sides have been seeing each other's Presidents in garishly negative terms for such a long time now.
Boomers did, and also the Bill Clinton affair was overblown by the media. Red blooded Americans didn't give two shits the president is getting head on the side. What was more appalling was Hilldawg's attempt to burry those women.
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