Again, Trump Supporters Prove That They've Become What They Swore to Destroy

Back in June, I wrote a post titled “Trump Supporters, You Have Become The Very Thing YouSwore To Destroy”. I won’t repeat it all now, but the basic point was that, in their rush to defend their Dear Leader against all threats, Trump’s most fervent backers embrace many of the things for which they once derided both Democrats and the Republican establishment.

And so it continues, as the election reaches the final twenty days.

For months, Trump backers have been making Bill Clinton’s treatment of women, and Hillary Clinton’s attempts to discredit and effectively destroy those same women once they came forward, a core part of the campaign. Trump himself has become increasingly willing to bring up the allegations as his standing in the polls crumbles. Bill Clinton is not in fact on the ballot, as the Clinton camp repeatedly reminds us, but it is also true that his wife repeatedly trashed the women who accused her husband of sexual assault. Whether the issue is fair game is debatable (I would side with Trump on this one and say that it is).

But regardless, if you’re going to bring up charges of sexual assault against your opponent’s husband, you’d better not have charges of assault and rape in your own closet. And if you do, you’d better not turn around and smear your accusers, in the exact same manner you accuse your opponent of doing.

This is hardly the first time someone has noted the hypocrisy of Trump supporters, and of Trump himself—the entire campaign is one big pile of hypocrisy. And plenty of others have remarked upon the amazing double standard of the Trump campaign toward victims of sexual assault, ever since Trump’s first accusers began to emerge. But the blatancy of the double standard here is simply incredible. Trump goes straight from attacking Clinton for destroying the reputations of the women who accused her husband of sexual assault, to attempting to destroy the reputations of the women accusing him, Trump, of sexual assault. One really has to wonder whether, on some level, Trump or his surrogates recognize the sheer audaciousness of their arguments, or whether they’ve actually begun to believe their own s---.

But in any case, the Trump campaign opened Pandora’s Box, and now they have to reap what they sow. If Hillary Clinton must account for her husband’s actions, then Donald Trump must account for his own.