That was sort of a 'cake walk' compared with the complete opposition, at all times, of one of the major political parties to President Trump.
Everybody thinks they are being attacked unfairly, and that people are just making all that nasty stuff up out of thin air, because, you know,
hate.
I think it was Bill Clinton who popularized the term "politics of personal destruction." Clearly he thought he had been attacked by a completely unfair, hate-motivated political party, who just made stuff up when they attacked Clinton. In Bill's mind, apparently, there was simply
no reason for his impeachment except the aforementioned politics of personal destruction.
But I noticed an interesting thing then, and I notice it now: political accusations are rarely made up out of pure fantasy. They always seem to have
some sort of rationale,
some kind of "where there's smoke, there must be fire" reasoning. Some commentator--I have long since forgotten who--once pointed out that for all of the venom that people spat at Richard Nixon, no credible person ever accused him of cheating on his wife. There simply was no evidence for it. No smoke, no accusations.
And that makes me think of Jimmy Carter. What fun it would have been to accuse a smug "born-again" Christian of not being a good Christian at all! Especially after he confessed to the whole world that he
had committed adultery "in his heart." Why not pin the real thing on him, too? But to my knowledge, nobody ever even tried. They accused him of cowardice (remember the attack rabbit?) and sheer incompetence, and lots of other stuff that at least had some
evidence (even if it wasn't actual
proof), but never a hint of cheating on Rosalynn.
So I suppose I am skeptical that all of these nasty attacks on Donald Trump are
entirely made up. There's generally a reason when so many people are reduced to foaming-at-the-mouth rage at a man, and the reason is probably not mass hallucinations.
