#I don't mean to blow this one example out of proportion—it's just the latest example of a very common pattern

[woozapooza]

The original post is totally correct but it's so annoying when people act like simply not knowing something is a grievous intellectual failure. Most people probably don't google the name of every store they come across to make sure it's not offensive, not because they're lazy or stupid, but because it's neither common knowledge nor common sense that such a popular store would have such a tasteless name. I doubt the OP of this post googles every single new word or phrase they hear before adopting it either!

[that-starlit-wanderer]

I mean that's true to a point, but I think part of the problem is that voters also have a built-in assumption that the media is liberal and left-wing and biased against Trump from the outset. (And I guess when I'm talking about voters here, I mostly mean that subset of the electorate that decides elections, i.e. that are persuadable and not firm partisans of one party or another.)

By contrast, when the media started talking about Hillary Clinton's emails again days before the 2016 election, how many of these persuadable voters said to themselves "this is obvious bullshit, the media is after her, they're trying to make her look bad, they're blowing this way out of proportion?" Not very many I'd guess, I think most people took it at face value that Hillary is corrupt and this latest story should obviously be taken seriously.

But beyond that, I think there's just this. Weird way in which Trump seems to get sympathy or the benefit of the doubt that other politicians don't. People will make excuses for him that they won't make for other politicians, even other Republicans. (That self-proclaimed black nazi pervert in North Carolina went from a close race to losing in a landslide after his scandal broke, for example.) I wonder if part of it is just that many people seem to like Trump, even if they don't agree with him or they think he's an asshole. People think he's funny and entertaining, they like the way he talks, he "tells it like it is," etc.

Idk, with all the discussion about what Democrats need to do differently or whatever I think the reality is that voters just hold Trump to a lower standard than they do other politicians (in a way that benefits Trump), and while you can try to overcome that in other ways there's ultimately nothing you can do about it