Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president.

— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) July 11, 2020

Mitt Romney is the GOP exception, of course, as he has been in the past.

In a normal time (at least pre-Newt Gingrich), with a pair of normal political parties (back in the day when the GOP was committed to governing), and a normal president (anyone from FDR through Obama), Senator Romney’s statement would not make him an extreme outlier.

Those were the days.