Family values
by digby
Clinton may have been a bad role model but he didn’t go on TV and call athletes and TV broadcasters sons-a-bitches — among a thousand other crude, cretinous comments. He didn’t write the sort of disgusting, ignorant stuff Trump writes on twitter. He didn’t brag endlessly about how great he is and degrade everyone else in the world (except Vladimir Putin.) He never boasted about assaulting women.
Nonetheless, more people think Clinton was a bad role model than Trump.
If you are wondering why, it’s largely because Republicans are lying hypocrites. Of course.
The polls point to another factor — Republicans are far more loyal to Trump on this question than Democrats were to Clinton two decades ago. In 1998, Democrats were about half as likely to say their party’s president was a good role model (31 percent) than Republicans are to say the same about Trump today (61 percent). Roughly similar shares of independents both then (22 percent) and now (28 percent) said Clinton and Trump are a good role model, respectively. Among the opposite party of the president, fewer than 10 percent said each was a positive role model in either year.
And keep in mind that this is the “family values” crowd, the people who insist that the world is going to hell in a handbasket because of liberals’ libertine ways.
Sadly, there’s also this:
And there are notable differences when it comes to gender, too. When Clinton was president, 17 percent of men said he was a positive role model. About twice as many say the same about Trump today, 35 percent. Women’s opinions of both presidents are very similar — 24 percent of women said Clinton was a positive role model; 23 percent say Trump is a good role model today.
A whole lot of men think this grotesque phony who brags about grabbing women by the pussy is a role model. It’s sickening.
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