Trump, GOP take us even farther down a rabbit hole

America awakened on Monday to learn that our president has endorsed a man accused of once molesting 14year-old and 16-year-old girls.

And on Tuesday, to learn that the Republican National Committee has changed its mind and decided to reinstate its financial support of Roy Moore in his quest to become Alabama’s new senator.

In Arizona, meanwhile, two Republicans who claim to be leaders and want to be our next senator — Martha McSally and Kelli Ward — have absolutely nothing to say about the propriety of what’s going on here. Because, well … priorities. “Democrats refusal to give even one vote for massive Tax Cuts is why we need Republican Roy Moore to win in Alabama,” President Donald Trump tweeted on Monday. “We need his vote on stopping crime, illegal immigration, Border Wall, Military, Pro Life, V.A., Judges 2nd Amendment and more. No to Jones, a Pelosi/Schumer Puppet!”

Meanwhile, 71 percent of Alabama GOP voters say the women accusing Moore of impropriety are all lying, according to a CBS poll. Most think that the women are part of one big conspiracy cooked up by either Democrats or the media.

And Trump supporters in Arizona tell me that Moore is innocent until proven guilty, as if the standard for criminal conduct is the same standard we ought to expect from our statesmen.

In the aftermath of Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo movement, two women have said that Moore molested them when they were teens and he was in his 30s. Several others say he pursued them when they were teens, and people in his hometown have said it was an open secret that he liked the young ones. Throw in a few more who have told the Washington Post that he made unwanted sexual advances, and it all adds up to nine women who are casting serious doubt on Moore’s fitness to serve.

Republican Sen. Jeff Flake gets it. “A Roy Moore victory is no victory for the GOP and the nation,” he tweeted on Thursday. Republican Mitt Romney gets it. “Roy Moore in the US Senate would be a stain on the GOP and on the nation,” he tweeted on Monday. “Leigh Corfman and other victims are courageous heroes. No vote, no majority is worth losing our honor, our integrity.”

Except, apparently, when they are worth losing. When you can rationalize away what’s happening by simply saying that it isn’t so.

We have a president with 16 accusers of his own — one who has reportedly suggested that his own incriminating boasts about what he can get away with doing to women aren’t real. This, even though he was caught on an “Ac-

cess Hollywood” tape.

One who during last year’s campaign bragged, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”

One who now assures us that Roy Moore is fit to be in the U.S. Senate.

Welcome to Donald Trump’s America, where fake is real and real is fake; where right is relative and things are never what they seem ... even when, well, they are.

It’s official: We have taken a header even deeper into the rabbit hole.

“Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end! ‘I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen,’ ” Alice said.

According to that CBS poll, an accused child molester now leads Democrat Doug Jones, 49 to 43 percent, with six days to go until the Alabama special election.

And the message to America’s daughters is ...