The Iowa caucus results are in and the 45th POTUS is the clear and convincing winner of 2024’s first contest of the presidential cycle.

I had hoped for a different outcome, but … well, it didn’t happen.

Thus I am left to wonder anew about the state of the Republican Party, whose caucus-goers would embrace a man who:

• Calls a Vietnam War hero a “loser” because he was captured by the enemy.
• Admits to cheating on all of his wives.
• Says he might “date” his daughter were he not her father.
• Mocks a reporter for a physical disability from which he suffers.
• Says he can grab women by their genitals because he is “famous.”
• Dismisses the intelligence findings of his spy network of experts in favor of some remarks by the murdering Russian dictator.
• Boasts about a “love letter” he received from another tyrant, the guy who lets North Koreans suffer.
• Tosses love at dictators around the world for the “strength” they show in subjugating their people.
• Pledges to assert authoritarian power “on the first day” of a presidency were he elected at the end of this year.
• Never once admits he lost the 2020 election and denies his successor the “peaceful transition of power” he deserves.
• Chastises those who planned the mission to kill Osama bin Laden because they didn’t do it sooner.
• Threatens to pardon the mobsters facing criminal prosecution for their participation in the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on our government.
• Has been impeached twice by the House and faces four indictments on 91 felony criminal counts.

This is the guy Republicans seem to prefer for the office of president of the United States of America?

God help them. And the rest of us, too.