The president is not a normal person

So it turns out that Trump Jr, Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort had a sit down with a Russian agent who claimed to have damaging information on the Clinton campaign, this happened last year and as you might expect, nothing at all happened and they mostly talked about adoption policy, well, at least if you ask Trump Jr that is.

What actually happened? No one really knows as there are no records(yet) of the meeting, but we do have the email chain that led to the meeting, we do know that several different flat out lies were told about why the meeting took place, who was there, and what The Toddler knew about it, now we know that the man himself appears to have dictated this statement in his sons name:

It was a short introductory meeting. I asked Jared and Paul to stop by. We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow-up.

from context you might be forgiven for assuming Jr. wrote it, but you would be wrong, it was entirely his dad, which directly contradicts other statements from him on the issue that ran the gamut from "I wasn't there and didn't know about it" to, well, that is pretty much it actually.

So that is all background, I am not going to go over how inappropriate and probably illegal it was, what I want to talk about is a statement released by Sarah Huckabee Sanders in Tuesdays press briefing saying that "The president weighed in as any father would based on the limited information that he had."

My dad never helped me possibly commit treason, his name is even Donald as well! I feel let down by my parents really.

So here's the thing, let's take the statement at face value and give Sanders here credit, let's say that most fathers would in fact help their sons commit treason, this is probably not true of course, but even if it was do you know who isn't most fathers? Someone who wants to be president of the United States of America.

Every defense of The Toddler boils down to a variation of that argument, that he isn't a politician, that he is only doing what a regular person might do, or that he is doing what a businessman would do, or a father, or whatever, but the thing is, he isn't a regular person, or a businessman, or even a father anymore. He is, in fact, a politician and everything he does needs to be predicated on that fact.

As does criticism of him, now an virtually any level he is a terrible person, businessman, and parent, but those are not critiques that are relevant, and indeed arguing them is playing into his hands and those of his supporters, when the fight becomes about how his businesses, or marriages, failed, then it is no longer about the job he is doing now, we should keep his history in mind and use it to inform our opinions, but it should not be the main thrust of our arguments. The reality is that no matter how terrible he was at what he did previously, he is in politics now and has been for the last year or two, and the job he has is probably the hardest job in the world, and he is making no effort to get good at it. None.

That is the point his supporters try to ignore, and that is the point that needs to be driven home when critiquing the president. He lies blatantly all the time, he thinks Twitter statements have the force of law, he attempted to cover up probable treason committed by his family and his campaign manager and continues to do so. He vacations nearly every weekend, he made no effort to prepare for the job and is making no effort to improve at it, he insults the intelligence of every person in the world by doing what he does in the office that he holds.

The president is not a normal person, they cannot be a normal person, they aren't hired to be a normal person. Arguments about someone's qualification as a normal person are irrelevant at best and intentional distractions at worst.