@maporsche,
maporsche wrote:I personally only care about hurting Trump with this issue. I think some on the left, maybe a majority, care about Russia. I don't see why even more couldn't care about both Russia and want to hurt Trump at the same time.
They all focused exclusively on wanting to harm Trump. They don't care about Russia.
maporsche wrote:Hurting your opposition is what politics is all about. You don't get pissed when Republicans do it, why are you so pissed when Democrats do it?
There are certain methods that are way out of bounds. Digging through someone's history in a political witch hunt for example. Or worse, getting an innocent person convicted of a crime.
Democrats don't recognize these boundaries and go way over the line repeatedly.
In the rare cases when the Republicans go way over the line like that, it is only an act of revenge (or perhaps self defense) after repeated incidents of the Democrats doing it to the Republicans first.
maporsche wrote:I really think you have a cognitive disconnect where you see the Republicans actions as all good and the Democrats actions as all evil.
There is no equivalence between someone who goes way over the line because they think they are above the law, and someone who crosses the line in order to defend themselves from someone who thinks they are above the law.
maporsche wrote:I think I see calls for an independent investigation.
Only now after they got a special prosecutor. Until they got the special prosecutor appointed, all they ever called for was a special prosecutor.
maporsche wrote:The Republican appointed deputy attorney general appointed a special prosecutor. No way you can push that on the Democrats. Trumps guy did it.
The Democrats were the ones who created the partisan atmosphere and accusations of wrongdoing, and the Democrats were the ones who repeatedly and endlessly called for a special prosecutor.
I can indeed blame the Democrats for this special prosecutor being appointed.
