Katie Hill resigning from office

[Gustaf]

It's kind of reassuring that even in a thread about a Democrat doing something sh***y and some Democrats wrongfully defending it there is still a Republican poster around to remind us that they are the cartoon villains no matter what.

[Gustaf]

She should have dug her heels in and stayed. Nobody cared.

I was reading somewhere about a typical Trump supporter who said they would support him no matter what he did - this man was rather honest - and it all came down to "because he takes no sh**t." People want someone who will fight. Too many people in our society crumble and cave, issue public apologies to no one in particular that are not accepted by their detractors, fold to critics upholding a hypocritical sense of morality. He is popular because, in his supporters' minds, he has the right enemies, he defies the right people, he is attacked in the "right" ways, and he, unlike they, gets away with it. This, I am convinced, is a great deal - perhaps the greater part - of Trump's appeal.

But that's because Trump is the champion of bad people who relish their own evil. While that has turned out to be a disturbingly large part of the electorate it's probably not a majority.