I do appreciate that Trump is / can be a complete asshole, has made plenty of mistakes and done things that many disagree with. I don't discount this fact.

One of the most eye-opening aspects of the world from 2020 onwards was seeing how far people would go to avoid ever be seen possibly agreeing with, or even contemplating saying or believing something that even closely resembled something US President Donald Trump said. If Trump said it was a beautiful dry day outside, the left-leaners of the world immediately donned rain coats and carried umbrellas.

If Trump said a drug that was effective against coronavirus then not only must people scoff it but every efforts must be made to discredit it and ban it, and even rig a study so that patients were given previously-known overdoses of the drug.

Yes, people were killed in a study to disprove a drug's usefulness against COVID-19 in part because it was suggested as a remedy by Trump.

Then we have the whole Russiagate scam. It has since been was revealed that the Steele Dossier was fabricated by the Clinton campaign to make people believe that Trump was a Russian stooge. Clinton's campaign was charged with election fraud for this. However, in 2024 this lie is still repeated by journalists and politicians, including Hillary Clinton herself who mentioned it on a recent interview.

What made this lie even more insidious was the entire cause for the CIA to investigate Trump was fabricated in an effort from the CIA to investigate him.

Does this not qualify as the actions of a "deep state" inside the government?

Yes, Trump is still an asshole, but more and more it seems like everything the world was told about his nefarious activities has been a lie.

If you're trying to show yourself as the righteous person working in the interests of the people and all that is good & just, against someone you believe is the very embodiment of everything you despise, maybe stop lying so much? Because from where I'm sitting it makes you the worse person.

The question is: in the apparent war against this one person, what lies are you willing to repeat? What are you willing to destroy? How many lives is it acceptable to be lost as casualties of war?

Asking for someone who used to have faith in you.