[Vision2020] "Silly Comparison": Clinton vs. Trump on Opposition Research

[Nicholas Gier]

Daivd Leonhardt, NY Times, Nov. 1, 2017

Trump and his media allies have tried to downplay his campaign’s Russia
dealings by saying the Clinton campaign’s financing of the dossier was even
worse. It’s classic whataboutism
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and it’s part of Trump’s effort to sow confusion about the allegations
against him.
It’s also a silly comparison. Clinton’s campaign was engaging in the usual,
if tough, practice of trying to uncover information that makes an opponent
look bad. Trump’s campaign, by contrast, was potentially colluding with a
foreign government hostile to the United States to disseminate stolen
material — with Trump then lying about it and trying to prevent a federal
investigation of it.

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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they
shall never sit in.

-Greek proverb

“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance
from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not in
lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without
guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your own
understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.

--Immanuel Kant
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