The funny thing is that I think BEFORE Trump, Democrats might have been to some degree susceptible to the same sort of willful blindness to an awful human being who nonetheless supported our policy agenda.

But now, having watched, with disgust, the moral corruption in the Republican party, Democrats are now hypersensitive to it. We have all become more self critical, and more righteous because we’ve seen what a slippery slope it is that the Republicans fell down.

By contrast, Republicans have so much (mostly figurative) blood on their hands that they can’t admit they were wrong about Trump. They can’t admit it to us, and they certainly can’t admit it to themselves. If they were to acknowledge the glaringly obvious facts about Trump’s criminality regarding the attempt to overthrow the election or his theft, mishandling, and cover-up of classified documents, that would mean admitting that Democrats were right about Trump all along.

It’s clear that Republicans would rather lobotomize themselves with Fox News than ever, ever, ever, admit to themselves that they’ve been the bad guys for years.