Candidates for 2020 elections.

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(03-22-2019, 08:16 PM)bfine32 Wrote: And there's a difference between an actual conversation and one based on semantics. To suggest Trump "set the bar" for divisiveness is absurd. POTUS have been divisive for decades. It's just the most folks don't like the side Trump comes down on say they'll say things. Trump has done nothing more to divide the population than any other president before him. Now folk's reactions to his words might add to the divisiveness.

So would it be fair to say: The liberal's reaction to Trump's words and action have set the bar for divisiveness. 

I'm going to disagree. Whether it's leading the charge that Obama wasn't born in the US, defending neo nazis, attacking dead war heroes, calling the porn star he cheated on his wife with "horseface", attacking the media as "fake news" while constantly distorting the truth himself, calling Mexicans "rapists", or publicly rebuking the intelligence community and taking the word of murderous dictators, the actions of Donald Trump since announcing his candidacy have completely destroyed any sense of decency and unity that the office of the President ever had. Anyone else who said or did a single thing on that list would have seen their political career end, no matter the party.

This goes well beyond the country's first black president speaking empathetically to black parents or being stern with a party that publicly stated they wanted him to fail. 

To even suggest that outcry against this very abnormal and unacceptable behavior is in reality what has "set the bar for divisiveness" is absurd and intellectually lazy.