Donald Trump has been ridiculed online for wearing a blue suit to the funeral of Pope Francis. Francis died aged 88 on Monday (April 21) after he had a stroke which caused his heart to fail.Leaders from around the world gathered in Vatican City to pay their respects to Pope Francis.Trump and his wif...
Ok we won’t talk about anything that doesn’t change votes three years from now.
I guess we won’t talk about anything.
First, hypocrisy is not a worthwhile criteria for an idea. We should judges ideas independently of the people espousing them. People who practice what they preach can practice awful, harmful, and useless ideas and people who don’t practice what they preach can preach great, helpful, and useful ideas.
Second, plenty of things change votes. And I guess anything, even hypocrisy might change someone’s vote on something. But it clearly didn’t with this case about the blue suit with Republicans.
But making fun of Trump might make him seem that much less based to some of the people who casually vote for candidates and if that translates into some fractional change in votes against Republicans it will have been worth it.