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That attitude, I should note, is totally understandable as a mental health coping tactic. It's also deeply misguided. Trump remains the single most powerful figure in the Republican Party and is widely seen as a heavy favorite for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination if he decides to run.
Which, just in case you missed it, amounts to this: Trump is openly asking an adversarial world power to help him dig up dirt on the son of the current President of the United States.
This, of course, isn't the first time that Trump has asked Russia for help in digging dirt on his political opponents.
Now, imagine for just a minute, if any other politician did anything remotely like this: Asking on more than one occasion for an adversary to help find damaging information about a political opponent. (And let's not forget this important context: We know Russia actively meddled in the 2016 election to help Trump and hurt Clinton.)
Such a request by a Democrat about a Republican president would bring cascades of condemnations, with some within the GOP likely suggesting that the request was unpatriotic, right? Right.
This is both wrong and dangerous. Trump's four years in office, culminating with the US Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, reveal that simply rolling your eyes -- or as so many Republicans have done (and continue to do), sticking your head in the sand -- has real-world consequences.
And those consequences mean that you can't just say: "That's just Trump being Trump." Because "Trump being Trump" has gotten us to where we are right now, which is a very dangerous place.