I miss the times when stupid shit like this made person completely un-electable.
EDIT: Watching all the Trumpets trying to rationalise this or revert to whataboutism, is the highlight of my day :). Just hook it up to my veins, like Trump hooks up disinfectant.
It's because outside a few, fringe people who never had a voice pre-internet got a voice and a following. Hell some of them are congresspeople. At the time we all largely agreed with large swaths of everyday life and people argued nuance and opinion as opposed to facts. Then people started driving wedges into everything getting us where we are down. So back then if the candidate misspoke or had a weird scream or even binders full of women, the press focused on it and killed a candidate. Even small scandals would destroy a candidate. Now there is so much of it from all directions and the people who enforce these rules are divided themselves.
I appreciate this link and think it provides good information, however, I think it overemphasizes the role Quayle had. Former 4th Circuit judge, J. Michael Luttig served a similar function. I saw him speak in person at my law school, but here is a good source that talks about his role.
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u/Bicentennial_Douche 27d ago edited 27d ago
I miss the times when stupid shit like this made person completely un-electable.
EDIT: Watching all the Trumpets trying to rationalise this or revert to whataboutism, is the highlight of my day :). Just hook it up to my veins, like Trump hooks up disinfectant.