Talking About Conservative Hypocrisy: My Reply to 'Why Do Democrats Hate When People Support Our President?'
On the question-and-answer site Quora, Trump supporter Lauren Davis asks: Why do Democrats hate when people support our president? Don’t they know they make our country look bad? My reply: Before I give you a proper answer, let me ask you this: Do Trump supporters see the hypocrisy in asking questions such as Why do Democrats hate when people support our president? Don’t they know they make our country look bad , when many of them not only disrespected the previous President between 2008 and 2017 but depict Democratic Party politicians and voters as traitors, “socialists,” and overall evil destroyers of the United States? See, one of the great tragedies about our representative style of democracy is that it has gradually devolved into a vitriolic team sport. A sport, dare I say, where it is a zero-sum game of “my team is better, so yours is for losers.” Partisan rivalry in America, of course, is nothing new. George Washington did not like the par...