I grow weary of the contagion pervading our political discourse. The tonnage of lies, betrayals, indictments, judgments against, criminal counts, misinformation, etc., attached to our previous president gets justified through “what-about-ism.”
When rationalizing this mass of misbehavior, MAGA supporters default to inane complaints about six classified documents found in President Joe Biden’s home dating to his vice presidency, Hunter Biden’s laptop, and Hunter Biden’s personal enrichment of a few million dollars leveraging his father’s name. Contrast that last example with the billions garnered by Trump’s children while their father was president.
One word answers these absurd comparisons. Proportionality: “The quality of corresponding in size or amount to something else.” (New Oxford American dictionary) Think about it.
Thomas Durham, Sandy
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