This overwrought degree of emotional investment is partly the result of so many Americans being profoundly traumatized by four years of Trump's maladministration.
Sean Spicer and Michael Cohen have been quick to distance themselves from Trump’s toxic legacy. If he is defeated next week, the PR machines of those who served him will go into overdrive.
It only took Spicer six months to use up his store of credibility, to disgrace himself on the biggest political stage in the world, and to be gutted by his boss like a fifty-cent fish.