"... Eight years ago, Trump thought that an alleged act of infidelity that once might have made for an ego-boosting headline would be a dealbreaker for a presidential candidate trying to score a nomination from a party that falsely touted its moral superiority over those supposedly godless Democrats.
"Now there are no guardrails that Republicans will apply, not that Trump would abide by them. In a way, the hush money trial is happening because Trump thought that Republicans possessed a greater sense of propriety than he does. They don’t. At a time when he’s desperately strapped for cash, it’s a good bet that he probably wishes he knew in 2016 what’s clear about the shameless and shameful party he leads now."-- Renee Graham in the Boston Globe, writing on the eve (hopefully) of the Malignant Loser's hush money for porn stars trial in Manhattan. Graham is absolutely correct, of course, that any assumption that the Christofascist MAGAt Republican cult would find anything their cult leader would do shameless or shameful would be wrong. For decades in the public eye, he's shown enough evil, hypocrisy, racism, moral turpitude, derangement, cruelty, ignorance, corruption, and un-American authoritarian behavior to turn away anyone with even a shred of conscience or decency. The millions who have stayed fiercely loyal to this p.o.s. are exactly who they vote for.
BONUS: This "AI Donald Trump" ad.
