But, but it’s different when democrats do it.
It sure is. What a double standard.
Exactly!
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
And plagiarism is flattery, of a sort.
But flattery is the very height of insincerity. It is a fawning effort to gain approval in the eyes of a perceived superior, in hopes of expected reprieve from demeaning treatment.
Taking and repeating the words of another, with or without attribution, as it fits the situation, is a way of either exhibiting far greater honesty, or of mocking the very hollowness with which the original speaker delivered the message.