that no one could meet. Holding the Republicans to "perfection" is an impossible standard. Then, when they prove unable to meet the impossible condition, they can be trashed for it. Of course, no one is perfect, least of all a group of politicians. While it may not fall into the technical definition of a "strawman argument", it's still reasonably close.

No one EVER suggested that if the Democrats weren't "perfect" when they had control of the government, then they should be kicked out. Politics, while in many ways representing the worst aspects of humanity IMO, is also the "art of the possible." That means there will always be the requirement for compromise - which is almost by definition imperfect. Of course, the old saying "the perfect is the enemy of the good" also applies.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a "strawman" as: "a weak or imaginary opposition (as an argument or adversary) set up only to be easily confuted."