
i see nonprofessionals speculating that he may be on cocaine in one specific instance. that’s a far cry from being “coked out all the time.” people’s tolerance to cocaine increases incredibly quickly, and in order to be “coked out all the time,” they’d have to do an increasing amount with increasing frequency to the point it wouldn’t be sustainable to hold a job. you can not like a person and not like cocaine, but that doesn’t mean the two are automatically related.
do i do cocaine? no. do i think politicians should be punished for doing it in their off time more than anyone else caught with an illegal drug? also no. it requires finite resources to test/investigate/punish that, and having worked in dc on that scene, i don’t think it’s realistic to expect people not to party when most of their job is networking with other politicians.