Quote (bogie160 @ Aug 20 2020 10:51am)
He's quite literally doing what they ask. They want to be left alone. He tried to help in Portland, and the Democrats wanted no part of it. Reasonable people now see that the mobs are still rioting, and that the Democrats in charge were wrong, but it's incumbent on them and their voters to initiate change.
GoodYear entered the fray and took sides on a divisive political question. They are free to do that, but they are not immune from criticism. Do you think people treat the Koch brothers or Soros any differently?
You can throw out whatever justifications you want. If Obama spoke of rural towns in PA devastated by job loss and the opiate crisis, and then said "let them rot" because those politicians refuse to provide sufficient funds for job training and medical care, you'd rightly consider it offensive and beneath the office. The failures of local officials doesn't justify the president speaking in this way.
The problem is that right-wingers now view the president as if he's a pundit. You guys don't expect him to be above the fray in any debate. And no attack is viewed as beneath the dignity of the office he holds. The problem is that everyone knows you didn't have the same standards for Obama, and won't for the next Democratic president.