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Trumpian rhetoric relies on a rotating arsenal of cognitive traps: Whataboutism to deflect, false equivalence to confuse, red herrings to distract and gaslighting to exhaust.

Self-exoneration through false moral equivalence by public figures is as old as time itself.

Vice President JD Vance dismissed the Republican text scandal as “stupid jokes” and “kids saying edgy things,” and called the outrage “pearl-clutching,” before attempting to draw a moral equivalence rather than take responsibility.

Israel’s war on Gaza increasingly resembles a neoliberalized version of the Final Solution, not in historical equivalence but in its genocidal logic.

Pressed on whether the US strikes were legal, Lammy responded: "I don't say it's not legitimate" and said there was "no moral equivalence" with the UK's clear stance that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was illegal.