Daily Kos Asks Very Fair, Even Important Questions Today

Not only does Daily Kos today ask a very good, fair and yes, even important two questions, but they also back them up with links to sources and resources, documenting their question and facts. Herewith:

Have you ever heard a journalist ask a Republican politician this basic question?

The claim by a former KGB spy that a former U.S. president had for decades been a Russian asset should be stunning, but in Donald Trump’s case, this report was not even surprising after five years of his party accepting and normalizing his behavior.

Just some, the most important, poignant parts of the article:

Mr. or Ms. Republican, there’s no question how you would have reacted if Barack Obama’s campaign had been rife with Russian connections, if U.S. intelligence services had concluded Russia actively attempted to help Obama beat John McCain, if Obama had fired the FBI director for investigating that meddling and fired his attorney general for recusing himself from that investigation, and if Obama had defended Putin while throwing shade at America. And there’s no question how you would have reacted if Obama had tried to leverage Ukraine’s vulnerability to Russian aggression by “asking” Ukraine’s president the “favor” of helping Obama to smear a Republican political opponent.

So, Mr. or Ms. Republican, what is your reason for not judging Donald Trump by the same standards of conduct that you would judge any Democrat?

And, Mr. or Ms. Republican, there’s no question how you would have reacted if Hillary Clinton had refused to concede the election after losing states she had been counting on — Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania — and had lied over and over again that she had actually won, and had directed her lawyers to file dozens of frivolous lawsuits, and if in a final act of fury, she had egged on her fervid supporters to show up for a “wild” day in Washington, and madly exhorted them to fight to stop Joe Biden from doing his Constitutional duty to count the Electoral College votes, and if that rabble, whipped into a frenzy by Hillary Rodham Clinton, had stormed the Capitol and murdered a police officer and injured over a hundred — and if, after that day of infamy, the majority of Democrats in Congress had continued to join Clinton in thumbing their nose at democracy and voted to reject the certified results of states — one last ugly and futile move to overturn the results of the election.

There’s no question, Mr. or Ms. Republican, how you would have judged Hillary Clinton had she been an unhinged sore loser who maliciously lied and incited a seditious, murderous mob. And there’s no question how you would have judged anyone in her party who had abetted her by parroting those lies.

So, once again, Mr. or Ms. Republican, what is your reason for believing that Donald Trump and those in your party who abetted him should not be judged by the same standards you yourself would judge any Democrat who acted the same way?

Keeping in mind, of course, that all of this also feeds directly into the impeachment trial of Mr. Trump which begins tomorrow.

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