The phrase "every allegation is a confession" has always served me well when talking about the GOP in the age of Trump. This occurs to me, as we hear that the party aligned with QAnon has, for years, countenanced Matt Gaetz as a member of Congress.
Gaetz's moral unfitness for office has been apparent since he slithered on the scene, with large numbers of Members apparently knowing what a scumbag this perv was.
And yet...
The fact that Donald Trump nominated a recidivist sex criminal to be Attorney General of the United States - forget that he withdrew him because even the GOP couldn't choke this one down - should be a scandal of the greatest magnitude. Yes, Biden pardoned his son. If you think these two things are remotely similar, I don't know what to say.
In a normal political party, Trump's nomination of a rapist would lead to the end of Pete Hegseth's nomination as Secretary of Defense, as Congress asserted its muscles. Since the GOP has become a Cult of Personality around as reprehensible a figure as this country can cough up, I don't know if this will shame any of them.
The idea, though, that Democrats are the real threat to children, because they believe gay and trans people should be free from persecution, while their president nominates an actual statutory rapist just goes to prove that the fundamental problem with the American electorate is that far too many people combine shitty information with low reasoning skills.
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