# Why is Biden being held to a much higher standard than Trump was? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 9, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-biden-being-held-to-a-much-higher-standard-than-trump-was/950378 "2021-09-09T14:27:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2021, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-biden-being-held-to-a-much-higher-standard-than-trump-was/950378/81 "2021-09-11T17:12:15Z")
Deeper in the sewage than Gutfield? Now that’s some nasty shit. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2021, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-biden-being-held-to-a-much-higher-standard-than-trump-was/950378/82 "2021-09-13T11:16:43Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > When you seach on [Biden “Great unifier”](https://www.google.com/search?q=biden+%22great+unifier%22&newwindow=1&client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=AOaemvI46ZxoPi098WBcR9Z99HPTyYGNcg%3A1631326593154&ei=gRE8Ye_ICMCk5NoPqYKS8AU&oq=biden+%22great+unifier%22&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAM6BwgAEEcQsAM6BwgAELADEEM6BAgAEEM6DgguEIAEELEDEMcBEKMCOgUILhCABDoECCMQJzoFCAAQkQI6CwguEIAEEMcBEKMCOgsIABCABBCxAxCDAToLCC4QgAQQsQMQgwE6CAgAELEDEIMBOgsILhCABBDHARCvAToFCAAQgAQ6CAgAEIAEELEDOgUIIRCgAToICCEQFhAdEB46BwghEAoQoAFKBAhBGABQl7fHFlip3McWYKHexxZoAXACeACAAZwCiAHVFJIBBjMuMTcuMZgBAKABAcgBCsABAQ&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=0ahUKEwivjeOQ7fXyAhVAElkFHSmBBF4Q4dUDCAw&uact=5) you find, almost exclusively, far-right shouters mocking Biden. Look down that page. Marc Thiessen. Gateway Pundit. TigerDroppings. Greg Gutfield. Clicking on the unknowns just puts you deeper into the sewage. So you’re saying that the far-right created a strawman so that they could knock it down and claim that Biden was a failure and a hypocrite. And it’s working, because the far-right supporters believe it. > [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Certainly, Biden campaigned on unifying the public. Before and after the election he’s been trying to appeal to exactly the centrists that Bump is talking about. Mocking him for wanting to do what presidents should want to do only shows the mindless extremism on the right. Worse - it’s “comic-book villain logic” again. “It’s your fault for not stopping me from doing something bad and/or for not fixing the effects of the bad thing I am doing even as I actively continue to work to prevent you from fixing it” just about works as an approach if you’re the Green Goblin taunting Spider-Man while throwing his girlfriend off a bridge. When a major political party is operating at that level, the country is in serious trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-biden-being-held-to-a-much-higher-standard-than-trump-was/950378/83 "2021-09-15T08:45:49Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > So you’re saying that the far-right created a strawman so that they could knock it down and claim that Biden was a failure and a hypocrite. And it’s working, because the far-right supporters believe it. Is that “working” though? Winning the votes of people who were already going to vote for you doesn’t seem very productive. > [@Gyrate](#): > > When a major political party is operating at that level, the country is in serious trouble. Very true but the USA has been operating at this level for some time, ever since Gingrich tried and succeeded with a “scorched earth” strategy by which he simply reflexively blocked anything Democrats tried to do, and found the electorate did not punish Republicans for it. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-biden-being-held-to-a-much-higher-standard-than-trump-was/950378/84 "2021-09-15T15:00:57Z")
I hold my neighbour to a much higher standard than his dog. If his dog gets out and craps on my lawn, I"m not surprised. My expectations are that my neighbour will not crap on my lawn himself. So I hold him to a much higher standard than his dog. Trump is the dog shitting on the lawn. It’s not newsworthy. It’s what dogs do. You sigh and clean it up. Biden is like the neighbour who drives over a corner of your lawn by the driveway. Irritating, but better than him having a dump in front of your living room window. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-biden-being-held-to-a-much-higher-standard-than-trump-was/950378.md?page=4)