The Trump-Biden Hypocrisy

Joe Biden has, admittedly, made mistakes in his political career. He voted against desegragating bussing and did not express support for LGBTQIA+ isues until roughly 15 years ago, while he has stumbled with words and falsely recalled events. A look at candidate Donald Trump reveals the blatant hypocrisy of Biden's critics. Joe Biden made those votes 40 years ago, and the party that claims using Tweets from 10 years ago is unfair because people change is now saying that votes Biden made when Nixon was in the White House are relevant. Joe Biden has been an ardent supporter of social justice issues. While in Congress he helped push rape shield laws, establish the sex offender registry, ban assault rifles for a decade, and other notable achievements in supporting crime victims. He also had tremendous foreign policy experience that earned him the vice presidency, where he helped shape the administration's position on legalizing LGBTQIA+ marriage and environmental protection in the most impactful administration regarding both issues to date. For his work, Biden was awarded the Medal of Freedom.

Trump supporters threw him into the White House hoping he would drain the swamp, but instead prominent supporters have been put in jail and Trump has been exposed as an alleged rapist, a man who bribes foreign governments, a man who obstructs Congress, and a man who has gutted LGBTQIA+ protections and called the Black Lives Matter movement thugs while criticizing the civil rights activist John Lewis. Those who slam Biden for what he did 40 years ago are supporting those very same deeds TODAY. The average age of a president is 55, and as such memory lapses are bound to happen. George W. Bush falsely claimed that he watched 9/11 unfold and Ronald Reagan died of Alzheimer's. With the stress of losing his wife and two of his children, Joe Biden managed to survive 2 brain aneurysms, served as a senator and vice president, and has now run his third presidential campaign, all with a down-to-earth personality. Biden is more relatable to the American public than Trump, and yet Trump supporters continue to claim that a New Yorker multibillionaire with no public service is the only way to combat corporate influence. As for Biden's speech, it's powerful cries for justice for each American far surpass Trump's name-calling and threats to those who oppose him, interrupted by 90% applause filler.

Trump supporters claim to like Trump because he "says what he means," but, when it looks bad, argue that he didn't mean what he said, using mental incpompetence to their defense. In fact, more people believe Biden to be mentally-capable of the White House than Trump, and the two are separated only by a few years. Trump's relative looks are the result of a lifetime of luxury, a lot of orange face paint, and some sort of work on his hair that only a convuluted cosmetologist could enlighten me on. When Joe Biden calls people out on their crap, the defenders of a man who calls women fat, ugly, and menstruating have the gall to call Biden rude.

The party that claims to hate blind subservience has shown its hypocrisy yet again with a base that believes anything Fox News and Trump say. Every Republican I have talked to has come from a long line of generations of Republicans, afraid to question the values they were instilled with for their xenophobia. However, I, like many of my cohorts, come from a long line of Republicans and only became a member of my party when I took my first conscious look at my values.