When my guy is in office it's good and normal. When their guy is in office it's bad.

Thanks for assuming my perspective and then snarkily replying based on said assumption.

I actually happen to firmly believe that this has been the norm for a very long time regardless of party.

When you say "this", do you mean sycophant-seeking authoritarian leaders demanding the appearance of commitments with fake numbers? Like when our president demanded a foreign leader "look like" he was investigating the presumptive Democratic nominee in 2019? Or when our president demanded certain numbers be made up in the state of Georgia for him to win an election?

I can't tell what you think "both sides" are doing.

Politicians and businesses knowingly working together to bullshit the general public.