As many people have already noted, the two political parties have both nominated thoroughly unsuitable sociopaths as their presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. But I do notice one interesting difference across the parties. Many prominent Republicans are dismayed with their choice of Trump, and many are distancing themselves from him in public and openly chiding him for his more excessive statements.
On the Democratic side, on the other hand, no such revulsion is apparent. The Democratic establishment seems perfectly willing to go along with Hillary's obvious ethical issues and daily lying. Indeed, they spend a lot of time trying to spin the daily bad news on her in a positive light.
Why is that? The two candidates are equally unsuitable, though for slightly different reasons. Why are the Republicans so obviously upset with their candidate (as they should be) but the Democrats meekly following and covering up for their equally unsuitable candidate?
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