• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    the point was he cheated on his significant other

    It most certainly was not. The point was that he defrauded the people in order to gain power.

    If he can do that to those closest to him, how can we trust him with the fate of faceless millions

    Fun fact: millions of imperfect people who behave badly, sometimes even cruelly, towards those closest to them are excellent public servants. Trump never was, of course, but that’s nothing to do with his private life.

    Professional and personal lives are separate things and as such, one doesn’t automatically reflect the other.

    This is nothing to do with “puritanism” and everything to do with his character

    Maybe not puritanism, but definitely sensationalism and conflating separate parts of the garbage human that he is.

    Would I prefer that all politicians are both excellent public servants and kind and considerate in their private lives? Of course!

    Do I believe that failing the latter makes the former impossible? Hell no! That’s just not how people work!