Why can’t both parties just disavow their own extremists?

Better late than never. Paul Ingrassia has reportedly withdrawn after being nominated by the Trump administration to lead the Office of Special Counsel following the leak of texts where he made wildly racist comments and unironically admitted he had a “Nazi streak.” Good.

Still, it’s a shocking stain on the Trump administration that Ingrassia was ever considered for any role in the federal government in the first place. He had already publicly expressed fascist sentiments, such as saying “Trump is the Constitution” and that Trump should remove Supreme Court justices and replace them with loyalists, which in any sane political era would be prohibitively disqualifying.