It’s not often that I recommend a column from Slate but this one is worth a read. It’s titled “The Democratic Party’s Double Standard” and it’s focused on the way in which Democrats, who’ve spent years demanding that Republicans renounce President Trump, suddenly find themselves in a similar position. Shockingly, most of them aren’t meeting their own high standards. The piece opens with a story about the end of Woodrow Wilson’s 2nd term.
…historians now generally believe that the president had suffered a series of strokes that would continue to visit him over the months to come, eventually leaving him thoroughly incapacitated. Wilson’s wife Edith and his closest advisers desperately concealed his impairment from the public for the remainder of his presidency, though a delusional Wilson still wanted to run for a third term in 1920…
Wilson’s handlers committed a crime…
