I just have no patience for "pretend." Pretend is not a strategy. You don't have to like what I'm saying, quite frankly *I* don't like it either - but I'm not gonna pretend reality isn't real because you feel a way.
It's not in me.
If you can't see that rats are fleeing the sinking ship and looking for any way that it's not their fault for insisting a horrifically unpopular president who was always going to lose is your only choice, I can't help you.
The shooter didn't do this; the Party did.