1. Accusation: Dems are weaponizing / abusing law enforcement for personal gain
1.A — Trump (acting AS PRESIDENT)/ Republican actions:
- Trump abusing law enforcement and foreign policy power via the Ukraine extortion effort - personally going after political opponents by fiat via with presidential power.
- Trump personally pressuring his Justice Department to launch investigations into Hillary, Biden and Obama, among others (thank you “deep state” for pushing back). In doing so, he utterly destroyed the institutional arms-length practices so vital to systemic integrity.
- Trump personally firing Comey and obstructing his investigation of the president.
- Trump personally attempting to fire Mueller to end / disrupt that same wider investigation. Saturday Night Massacre dynamics everywhere.
- Trump personally pressuring the AG into throwing out charges against Michael Flynn. A judge here ruled that the whole thing smelled corrupt.
- DeSantis having an autocratic tantrum - going after a particular company because that entity engaged in gasp.... free speech.
- I'm sure there are more examples. Please add whatever I’m missing as this first pass.
Examples of Biden or Dems personally doing anything remotely like this? ZERO
2. Accusation: This latest indictment is a Dem attempt at "election interference"
2.A — Trump (acting AS PRESIDENT) / Republican actions:
- Trump personally leading an insurrection to thwart the peaceful transfer of power.
- Ted Cruz and other Republicans acting as spineless sycophants during Jan 6 proceedings.
- Trump personally pressuring Georgia officials to find just enough votes for him to "win."
- Trump attempting to fire the acting AG in favor of someone who would prosecute election lies; a bunch of aides / advisers threatened to resign if he did so (thank you "deep state").
- Trump publicly / recklessly touting a full catalog of conspiracy nonsense, thus leading many Americans to distrust the lifeblood of our system.
- I'm sure there are more examples. Please add whatever I’m missing as this first pass.
Examples of Biden or Dems personally doing anything remotely like this? ZERO
3. Accusation: Biden and the Dems are implementing "Fascism" and turning us into "Banana Republic"
3.A — Trump (acting AS PRESIDENT) / Republican actions:
- Abusing the power of the presidency in a coup attempt to remain in power.
- Abusing the power of the presidency to go after opponents by fiat (see Ukraine impeachment and attempts to “jail” Hillary, et al).
- Trump personally obliterating institutional norms - for example, outwardly saying and expecting the AG to be his personal lawyer, not the nation's. Or firing Comey when he wouldn't declare fealty to Trump personally.
- Abusing the power of the presidency in an attempt to throw out utterly legit elections - pressuring Ga, supporting conspiracy movements, trying to fire the acting AG in favor of a goon.
- Trump destroying a vital vetting tradition and refusing to release his tax returns as a candidate.
- Trump and his family enriching themselves through all manner of Emoluments Clause violations.
- Republicans needlessly making voting more difficult everywhere, because they know the party loses amid large voter turnout.
- Trump's political base is white nationalist circles, focused on dehumanizing the "other".
- Trump constantly race baiting to scare and gin up white people - "I'll never allow affordable housing in the suburbs..."
- Today's Republican party is centered on a massive cult of personality. They worship a demagogue who punches down on anybody not rural and white.
- I'm sure there are more examples. Please add whatever I’m missing as this first pass.
Examples of Biden or Dems personally doing anything remotely like this? ZERO
4. Accusation: Biden and the Dems are "indoctrinating" young people into a liberal worldview (as if simply acknowledging that humanity is complex constitutes "indoctrination" in some way).
4.A — Trump (as PRESIDENT) / Republican actions:
- DeSantis and others walling off kids from the real world, thus (truly) indoctrinating young people into a narrow conservative world view.
- DeSantis and others white washing the history of race in the U.S., thus (truly) indoctrinating young people into a narrow conservative world view.
- DeSantis and others banning books if they offer windows into varied personal backgrounds.
- DeSantis and others punishing teachers if they veer away from American Exceptionalism as the foundation for instruction - promoting a mob enforcement mechanism that allows parents to actually SUE teachers for suspected "violations".
- Republicans denying climate science consensus
- Republicans denying vaccine science consensus
- Republicans pushing all manner of Christianity onto the rest of society via muscular distortions of the constitution's Free Exercise clause.
- I'm sure there are more examples. Please add whatever I’m missing as this first pass.
Examples of Biden or Dems personally doing anything remotely like this? ZERO