Its not Whataboutism if those two parties are basically the same entity(two headed ogre) and you just get to “pick” which head is in charge for the term and they are reminding people of this so you avoid the entire tumor not just the part floating above water. Are they wrong to say all the President’s for a long time have ignored the Constitution? If they aren’t its rather valuable information to be aware of, unless that doesn’t fit your political narrative? But saying that, I get where you are coming from, different people and situations create different interpretations and language isn’t always perfect at communicating what we intend.
My own opinion/perspective is that Trump is partly symptom of how much our Democracy has become a farce, on the other hand Kamala wouldn’t have been half as bad, but I also don’t like how little respect the “Left” has for individual rights except the ones they cherry pick (“whataboutism”)but Republican Party is also super guilty of that. They want a big benevolent blob of a government that will do much better than you at running your life, their solution to any problem is make a bigger more powerful government and force conformity to that central authority. Now I will admit I don’t think they would outright abuse all that power I cannot say the same about hm… for example Trump and the since Republican leaning factions in the country won’t just magically disappear so you have to accept that centralizing government power is not something you get to decide if it will be abused or not. For example if Trump decided to create a “Universal Healthcare System,” would that be a completely corrupt cash grab for Private Equity and Big Pharma and would that be a forever tax like the military budget, theft literally legislated into law.
We completely lost control of “our” two political parties, we are a lot more like China and Russian than people want to admit, we can talk shit about the government but we have about as much control over it as the Chinese and Russians have over theirs. Anything Military gets rubber stamped by congress with like maybe 10% of them voting against any of it, even what passes for Left. Democratic Party goes along with it all while whining, basically a mistreated housewife, but Democratic Party won’t actually leave their abuser. Rather than try and make themselves attractive to progressive voters they instead try and lean “Conservative.”(Corrupt) The can’t lean progressive because the progressives want to tax the rich and regulate Big Business, etc, but those are their sugar daddies.
They have to take “Lobby and Campaign Finance money”(bribes) to buy advertisements on Corpo-Media, also if they don’t kiss the ring(turns their back on Progressives) the media shadow bans them and all the other “politicians” outcry how unqualified for the job they are and how they will ruin “America.” To be fair If those other politicians didn’t take bribes they wouldn’t have gotten elected, therefor it’s hard to keep out the type who are threatened by progressives. We are just a lot more sophisticated in having a rigged system, internally our propaganda is subtler, externally I bet we look like malignant idiots, we kind of are but we were somewhat turned into it. A blend of Russia problems and Chinese Problems, we call it USA, the social progress is non existent or at least I haven’t seen any in 30 years.
Of course if Democracy/society had two brain cells to rub together than would notice they could vote for the opposite minor party, drawing away votes from the The Republicans and the Democratic Party inversely while also doing cultural exchange(divisiveness immunization), Pressuring their hated blob of choice to up their game lose or get replaced. Shifting power away from the two big blobs and create two more options to vote for but they only know how to wave the flag of Lesser Evil. To be fair Politicians are supposed to guide them into those kind of cleverness, but maybe they are too busy making $1000 plate fund raising dinners and rubbing shoulders with the rich somewhere. Or if they are different they are someone we never heard or of heard of because they didn’t spend lots of money trying to compete for our attention with the Corpo-slop-trough.