“Defending” them? Just reminding you that politics is the art of the possible, and for everyone to suddenly have an epiphany and streamline their path to the gallows is not very possible.
Grover Cleveland was once a tough, no nonsense sheriff in the frontier town of Buffalo, NY. He tried, convicted and hung ruffians within a few weeks of the murders they committed. Eventually, he became an excellent POTUS. But that was then. This is now. Now it takes so long to see a sumbich dangle, if at all, he might just die of old age in the interim.
You’re an idiot!
This is not politics, pussy!
This is war!