Thread by @bansisharma

1. On Presidential Conduct Unbecoming

Drawing upon Victor Davis Hanson's work, let us dig deeper into the incessant, facile diatribes against President Trump from Democrats, MSM, and NeverTrumpers -- all complaining about his assorted infractions against presidential decorum.

2. We are told that the boisterous Trump, our first president without military or political experience prior to his election, has disgraced the office. In his 31 months since January 2017, how exactly has he done so, at least by the low bar of past presidential standards?

3. Did President Trump conduct liaisons in the presidential bed or restroom or office in the manner of liberal lions such as FDR, JFK, or Bill Clinton? Did he habitually use the N-word or expose himself to staffers, as did the great civil-rights icon LBJ?

4. Is President Trump's terminal health condition now kept from the media in the conspiratorial fashion of Woodrow Wilson or FDR?

5. Is the Trump Foundation flush with infusions of hundreds of millions of dollars, as was the case with the Clinton Foundation during Hillary’s tenure as secretary of state?

6. Does President Trump have a tendency to get handsy at public events, or come up behind female teenagers or blow in their ears à la Vice President Joe Biden?

7. Did President Trump weaponize the IRS, the DOJ, the FBI, and the CIA the way Obama-administration officials did to sabotage a political opponent’s campaign? Has Attorney General Barr surveilled the communications of Associated Press reporters in the fashion of Eric Holder?

8. That's water under the bridge, you say. Fine. Let us then turn to the slate of Democratic candidates who aspire to replace President Trump. Perhaps Trump’s twitter crudity is shocking given the sober comportment of his would-be presidential opponents.

9. Has President Trump, then, promised to take Joe Biden behind the gym and physically beat him up, or warned Cory Booker that in a testosterone rage he would beat him up too, as both have bragged about doing to Trump?

10. Did President Trump whip racial animosity in the manner of Elizabeth Warren by falsely alleging that the Ferguson shooting, thoroughly investigated by the Obama Justice Department, was murder?

11. Has Trump punned about Kamala Harris not coming out of an elevator alive?

12. Did he egg on Johnny Depp, Madonna, and a host of other creepy celebrity has-beens to brag about the ways to assassinate a president?

13. Would current Democratic–primary leader Joe Biden be willing to take the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test, given to Trump (who aced it) to remind his critics that he was not demented as they serially alleged?

14. The progressive party, many past presidents, the media, and Hollywood didn’t need to be schooled by Donald Trump on the arts of crudity, unprofessionalism, and unethical behavior. They practiced and practice it aplenty all by themselves.

15. So what we need are not more pathetic abort-the-Trump-presidency melodramas, or ethical sermons from the abjectly unethical, or “Trump is the worst” this or that from historically ignorant pundits.

16. Instead of vague socialist bombast and promises, where is the actual detailed progressive version of the Contract with America, so voters can read it, digest it, and then decide whether it is superior or inferior to the status quo since 2017?

17. For those who insist that “character matters” more than policy, then, let us compare the Trump behavior in the White House since 2017 with JFK’s, Lyndon Johnson’s, and Bill Clinton’s.

18. Let’s compare President Trump's supposed efforts to “obstruct” justice with Obama’s actual record of politicizing federal justice, intelligence, tax, and investigatory agencies.

19. So far, that is something that apparently no presidential candidate wishes to do. Why is that? Because they all know they have nothing on Trump -- not when they compare Trump with past Democratic presidents, nor when they do so with the sorry lot seeking the office.

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