Separate but Equal?

It’s remarkable how some people sigh over the condition of the election as a whole every time Donald Trump says or does something off-the-wall, which he does daily; as if Clinton were somehow equally responsible for Trump’s irresponsibility. I can’t imagine the fictions people tell themselves about Clinton to create this false equivalence. The idea that Trump and Clinton are somehow equally reprehensible is itself reprehensible and completely at odds with the facts. The overwrought hatred of Clinton that would lead even otherwise reasonable people to prefer the worst candidate in the history of American politics is not rational. Once again, then, a listing (doubtless incomplete) of things that Clinton has not said or done…

...claimed without evidence that the election is rigged; accused his opponent of being on drugs; refuses to show his tax returns but apparently didn’t pay any federal taxes for many years; called for negotiating with mom and pop on the redemption of their U.S. savings bonds; imagines that he saw thousands of people on TV celebrating 9/11; characterized Ferguson as one of the most dangerous places on earth; made weirdo phone calls bragging about himself while pretending to be someone else; married and discarded glamour models and made sexually suggestive remarks about his offspring; favors starting a trade war and a worldwide recession by slapping an astronomical tariff on Chinese goods; calls for the creation of a Gestapo-like government force to undertake a massive, years-long round-up and deportation of undocumented families; believes members of one religion should be put under surveillance and possibly put in camps; thinks Mexican people are rapists and wants to build a staggeringly expensive 2,000-mile wall that would be the largest infrastructure project since the interstate highway system; believes that illegal immigrants are pouring over the borders to vote in the November election; believes American soldiers should kill the innocent children of suspected terrorists; ran a fake “university”; drove five businesses into bankruptcy leaving investors and creditors with nothing, and routinely stiffed contractors; mocked a war hero who was shot down and imprisoned for five years and callously dissed the parents of a fallen American army officer; ridiculed a person with a severe disability; threatened to crush anyone who criticizes him in print through libel lawsuits; questioned Barack Obama’s country of birth and lied about his birth certificate; acquired his foreign policy expertise by “watching the shows;” accused Ted Cruz’ father of complicity in the murder of JFK; implied the Clintons murdered Vince Foster; counts among his most ardent supporters members of the Alt-Right, white supremacists, and people who brandish swastikas; referred to disliked members of the opposite sex as fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals, inferred that Megyn Kelley asked about those characterizations only because she was menstruating; bragged about grabbing women’s crotches and trying to seduce married women, and stands accused by multiple women of uninvited and unwanted spontaneous touching/kissing/grabbing.

Remember now: Hillary Clinton didn’t say these things. The mainstream media didn’t say these things. The "rigged system" didn't say these things. Donald Trump, and only Donald Trump, said these things.