Thread by @jbouie

wait, is the claim here that obama was a man of poor character?

https://twitter.com/mattklewis/status/1467880356716191744

also “republicans take responsibility for the actions of your party” challenge

“character” as lewis seems to define it here is overrated and does not have that much bearing on presidential decision making but if we’re evaluating candidates using conventional measures of “good character” then it is a little weird to make obama a foil to, say, romney.

and, to emphasize the point in my second tweet, Trump is in many ways the apotheosis of trends within the GOP, so to frame him as some last ditch response to losing with “good men” (one of whom actively sought out Trump’s endorsement) is ridiculous.