politics

There’s plenty of disqualifying traits for Republicans

What are they? This guy literally tried to overthrow the government. He openly courts Russian influence in elections. He openly admits to being easily corrupted and persuaded by individual campaign donors to the point of changing his entire position on the basis of what companies they own. He has been convicted of felonies. He has been convicted of fraud. He has been found in court to have sexually assaulted women. He had his charity organization shut down due to fraud. Many of his attorneys can no longer practice law because of the things he had them attempt in courtrooms. He conspired to bring fake electors to Washington DC. He sent love letters back and forth with a North Korean dictator. He bragged about assassinating a murder suspect in the Pacific Northwest. He's incontinent. He's unintelligible. He was impeached twice. He said "we'll take the weapons first and then do process later". He said of John McCain "I like people who weren't captured". He fucked a porn star while his wife was pregnant and then he paid the porn star off to cover up the story during the election. He mocks disabled reporters. He smells like a full diaper. He said he can "grab women by the pussy" because he is a star. He sold beans from the oval office because a Goya executive said they supported him. He called Nazis "very fine people". He told the American public that "they're looking into" injecting disinfectants in order to cure COVID. He refused COVID testing and then went on-stage for a planned debate with an active case of it. He wanted a military parade. During the passage of his meager working-person tax cut, he forced the US treasury to attach his signature to the checks. He's fundamentally weird and never appears to laugh or ever even tell a coherent joke. He rarely even smiles. He likely gave secret documents to the Russians. He and his family used private email servers continually despite pretending that his political opponent deserved to be in jail for doing so. He complains constantly about the state of the country whether or not he is leading it. He does not appear to have a single friend in the world. Everyone who works with him winds up regretting it. He goes on strange rants where he speaks as if "the late great Hannibal Lecter" is or was an actual person that died. He lies about his mental and physical health. The list goes on and on and on.

Yet despite all of that....HE IS THE GOP NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT.

The guy is a walking version of "the aristocrats" joke.

As far as I can tell a disqualifying trait for the Democratic candidate for President is looking too old or letting out a "BYAAAAW" at a campaign event. So this isn't exactly a "both sides" type of thing. One party's candidates have to walk on water to barely win, while the other's continually rack up absolutely absurd would-be dis-qualifiers and continue to be taken seriously by the media, the government, and the public.