The man's a thug and a buffoon. We've all known who he was from the start. He can't help what he is.

Neither can you blame his troglodyte followers. They are ignorant, scared, angry, little men, easily misled by demagogues and scoundrels. They can't help who they are either.

Those you can blame are the Republican politicians and press, the GOP leaders and pundits, the right wing intellectuals (there's an oxymoron for you!) and analysts, journalists and writers, talk-radio hosts, business leaders and politicians so desperate to profit from his agenda that they look the other way and make excuses for him, spin the facts to make him look better and who fell right into line as soon as he was nominated. You will recall many of them opposed him bitterly until he won the nomination, then they fell into jack-booted, goose-stepping lockstep. And we now know who they are. Remember, some of them even posted here. They covered for Bush, and they covered for Reagan and for Nixon. They can help who they are, they just choose not to.

The President and his base can be forgiven. It is possible to imagine circumstances where a Democratic Trump could have materialized and a corresponding constituency that could have coalesced around him. Those I cannot forgive are the Conservatives, the Right, the TParty, Freedom Caucus, the alt-right, libertarians, professional internet trolls, fundamentalists and so-called patriots who had no philosophy or ideology except hatred of the Left and unquestioning devotion and worship of the sleazeball fascist goons that make up the current Conservative wing of American politics.