[apoorvkumar]

I never quite understood why a mention of Donald Trump needs to have a comparison of Hillary Clinton along side - and for that reason anyone? He is a vile and despicable human being and the fact that a big fraction of US voted for him doesn't change the fact. So we can criticise and ridicule him at every step without having to qualify it by mentioning every disliked person in history of humanity.

[seabird]

Because when it came down to it, the choice was between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Clinton is also a vile and despicable human being, and the fact that a big fraction of the US didn't like her opponent doesn't change that fact. We can criticise and ridicule her at every step without having to qualify it by mentioning that somebody is subjectively "worse."

It's not "open season, but only for Trump" just because you like Clinton better.

[apoorvkumar]

> just because you like Clinton better.

Upvote for illustrating my point. In your universe there are 2 mutually exclusive and exhaustive groups - Trump people and Clinton people. I couldn't care less about Clinton. Go ahead and make fun of her all you want. My issue is with coupling of the personalities. When you retort to a comment about Trump with the 'oh but Clinton' defence you're trying (poorly) to take away legitimacy of individual criticism.

'When it came down to it' - well it comes down everyday. You have an option to not defend an immoral human (very objectively immoral, by the most basic of human moralities accepted in most civilized cultures).