[ETL]

I live in a world where EVERY LEADER gets the benefit of the doubt, even if he's mean to gays, and only after they do something damaging to us

Wow! That means you would have given a long list of history's most brutal monsters the benefit of the doubt, including Hitler (before the war).

[BobL]

I guess that’s true, as the alternative, which is PREDICTING what they will do would have landed both Reagan and Bush Sr. in jail, based on what the liberals expected to happen under them.