No that’s not what I mean by degenerate. I mean someone who says Mexicans are sending their rapists, their daughter is a “piece of ass,” that they like soldiers who weren’t captured, that pays off porn stars to cover their affairs, that tells foreign leaders to investigate their political opponents, etc. There are plenty of people who can get tough on immigration, China, and NATO without being a degenerate... perhaps a four star general. Yes, one can make the argument that a degenerate can be an effective President, and there is precedent for this (e.g. LBJ, Clinton) but I think that welcoming degenerates to the office is a bad long term idea.
Litmus test time: does this look like degenerate behavior to you? This is a presidential frontrunner and (at the time) an acting VP. He got his cokehead son $1.5B in Chinese money, too, for his "investment" firm, how that continues to escape the front page of WaPo and NYT is beyond me.
Or are your morals selective enough to remain blind to this? Because it seems that the mainstream press is trying their hardest to not cover the story, and if it wasn't for Trump's "whistleblowing" (which I believe he orchestrated himself), nobody would know.
On the Washington-calibrated President degeneracy scale, bounded by George Washington at 0 and Donald Trump at 10, I’d give this a 5, Bill Clinton a 7, and Lyndon Johnson a 9.
