Kulturkampf

[DavidCroquet]

Hunter is in every respect a heinous individual. The whitewashing around him from the left has always been this weird all or nothing policy. So, at a point you wonder if he believed his own hype and made himself part of these conversations. Nobody was willing to say no.

This sounds extremely plausible. 

The art of holding two conflicting narratives as simultaneously true is a dying one. 

"Hunter was being used as a convenient political whipping tool by the right, which included leveraging some (but not all!) made up bullshit"
and
"Hunter Biden is a gross and amoral person, the type of which normal people rightfully don't want anything to do with"
Are both true statements. 

I was shocked when there were all these stories about Hunter being so close to Biden during all this hoopla...like yeah, it's his son, but he's specifically the kind of son that will drag the Resolute Desk to a pawn shop if you leave him unattended for half an hour.