I think this shows how powerful is the pull of the "both sides do it"/false equivalence frames. For over a year now . . .
That's easy. Many in my timeline say Ginsburg shouldn't have said it but Scalia was worse.https://twitter.com/djsziff/status/753008985842683904 …
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we've been told Trump's candidacy is sui generis, has real shade of fascisms, is supported by avowed Nazis and KKK members . . .
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& if thats so then RBG is totally justified. Would anybody be lamenting her decision now if it was literal Hitler as GOP nominee?
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Either Trump is a run-of-the-mill candidate, in which case standard norms apply, or he's not, and they don't. We've been hearing
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that's NOT a run-of-the-mill candidate for a long time, so appeals to political norms are not persuasive
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Heh! But that seems like a fair-er comparison! I'm not a huge Hillary fan. But as bad as Trump? Really?!
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