Many Republicans with whom I disagree about politics share my view of him. But the thing that makes him truly irredeemable and should have made him politically radioactive for Republicans is that he would not commit to a peaceful transfer of power. He declined to do this repeatedly, many months in advance of the election. Trump's lack of commitment to the most basic principle of our democracy laid the groundwork for his big lie about having really won the 2020 election. This is the real Trump derangement syndrome, to be defending the indefensible. What we are witnessing now among Republicans is not normal politics.