• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Which isn’t the electorate.

      JFK was also notoriously unfaithful in his marriage, that didn’t make him a bad president and the only ones who pretended that his philandering, as they probably called it at the time, were Republicans and Protestant bigots who were just looking for ways to attack him for anything.

      To be clear: I agree that Trump is absolutely a garbage person and that it was a horrible thing to do to his wife. It’s still completely irrelevant to his professional (mis)behavior, though. Unlike the subsequent coverup.

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        4 months ago

        Cheating on your loved ones is definitely evil, the only time you should be sleeping around with someone who isn’t your partner is if you are in an open relationship or if you and your significant other are both polyamorous.

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          4 months ago

          Yes yes, you’re on the record as being against marital infidelity. Such a brave and controversial stance 🙄

          Let me repeat one last time: his private affairs (double entendre not intended) are not relevant to his public life and as such is none of our business until they break relevant laws and/or otherwise influence the job.

          Or, to put it another way: as far as anything that actually matters that anyone not directly affected is concerned, he could have done the same things while not married or otherwise in a relationship and it would have been exactly as bad.