Whataboutism is the state flower of negative partisanship, one of the strongest forces keeping political tribes together and reducing reflection on the immutable standards that are supposed to govern presidential and personal behavior. In the age of hyperpartisanship, the sins of the opposing party motivate voting more than do the positive aspects of a voter’s own party. As anyone who has ever received mail from a campaign knows, the mail pieces are usually about the dire threat posed by the blind ideologues on the other side or the opposition candidate. No one asks for money saying the other
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