THE BURNED OVER DISTRICT

That they no longer mind the stink of their corrupted, dysfunctional lives. And the shining example of Republican regard for "family values" is their current standard bearer, Donald Trump.

In this deeply conservative part of Ohio, full of cornfields and horse-drawn Amish buggies, people know all about Donald Trump’s two very public divorces, his extramarital affair with a beauty queen who became his second wife and his five children from three marriages.

But more surprising to many voters than the complexity of Trump’s “Modern Family” personal life is that it is not stopping them from voting for him.

“The other day I was thinking: Why doesn’t it bother me that he has had three wives?” said Carole Shetler, 66, a pastor of a Christian church who also works at the Wholesome Valley Farm store. “We have been desensitized.”

Only one other president, Ronald Reagan, had ever been divorced when he sought the White House. But Reagan had only one ex-wife. And unlike Trump, he did not have women publicly feuding over him — nor appear on the cover of Playboy magazine.

A messy private life — at least, when it’s known — has long been viewed as a disqualifier for a run for the highest office. Just ask former senator John Edwards, the North Carolina Democrat whose 2008 White House bid imploded following revelations that he’d had an affair.

But in 2016, millions of voters are merely shrugging about personal lives that once seemed scandalous.

Many ordinary Americans wind up divorced. Then there’s the fact that the marriage of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton is viewed as far from perfect. Both are key reasons people gave in interviews here that explain why they no longer weigh a candidate’s personal life as seriously as they once did.

“Let’s face it — there is not a lot of choice,” said Shetler, a Trump supporter who recalled the sex scandals around former president Bill Clinton. “We have to have change. I know other pastors, and they are for Trump, too.”

Republicans don't need corkscrews, they twist their words to much they can open any bottle. Sadly, the result is that those who listen, even so-called church people, no longer care about what should be the heart of their morality. And Donald Trump is the result.