a veteran who did four tours? people can change! he's against the genocide! also regular people love veterans so this gives him mass appeal. we don't have to ask too many questions about his service or how he feels about the military itself

leaked reddit posts including shit about how much he loved war, wished he could have fought in Vietnam and in "the Indian wars", of course misogyny as well? those are years old! you don't need to dig through everything the man's ever said online! we've all had bad takes.

nazi tattoo? he says was drunk and didn't know it was a nazi symbol when he got it. he explains it as something he got with his buddies to signify that they were killers, and they were good at it, and they were proud of it. let's not think too hard about what that last part of the explanation might suggest because he pinky promises he had no idea and got it covered up mid campaign

working for blackwater? well uh he needed money and do you hate poor people? also he never worked for blackwater.... he just worked for the company blackwater joined when it needed to rebrand. again don't think too hard about the last part, don't you care about winning?

cheating on his wife? that's just a personal issue between them, it should have no bearing on the election

alleged domestic abuse/ipv? the woman who came forward is a republican op and this is just an attack by the Israel lobby to try to kill a "progressive" candidate. it's so stupid and ridiculous that this woman thought her story with him was even that bad. he just sounds like a shitty boyfriend. yes he grabbed her hard enough to leave marks on multiple occasions. yes he once forced her into a room and blocked her exit by like leaning on the other side of the door while they were in a fight. I hardly think that constitutes abuse! and she's literally worked for republicans so there's no way she's even telling the truth anyways.

and finally. a white american democrat alleges rape. most of them are shocked and horrified that he might do such a thing, and there were no signs that he was capable of such a thing. the rest are either saying "I don't care", "it's her fault", or "well yeah it was rape but if you think about it, it wasn't as bad as it seems, because he was drunk and she sent a text about needing a massage before telling him not to come over and she didn't lock her doors so really can you blame him for thinking it was maybe kind of consensual?"

like awesome job guys you ignored atrocities and red flags at every step, refused to look at him with literally any scrutiny or ask questions, and mocked people who thought these were problems. they victim blamed a woman for having the wrong politics, hand waved his military service and love of violence, shrugged off the tattoo.... none of that was apparently so much as a red flag, so this rape allegation is completely surprising and beyond the pale. some of them were holding him up as an example of how the left should act! at least one of them wanted him to run for fucking president! after all of that! because "no one wants perfect squeaky clean candidates, and the left needs to appeal more to the rugged masculinity fans anyways."