A new symbol for Trump's Republicans?

The outrage of Trumpistas at Hillary Clinton's jaw-dropping negligence in using a hackable private email server for official business as Secretary of State knows no bounds. And that outrage is appropriate, as far as it goes-- though I have to shake my head over their lack of equal outrage over Mr. Trump's impulsive blurting of classified information to the Russian ambassador and foreign minister, compromising an Israeli intelligence asset in the process just so he could brag about how knowledgeable he is. Evidentally it doesn't matter to them that now our enemies and Israel's are knowledgeable about something both countries would have been better of if they didn't know.

Trumpistas are not big on irony, of course. And chances are they will find reasons why we shouldn't be concerned that no fewer than six of Trump's White House aides-  White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner, former chief strategist Stephen Bannon, Chief Economic Advisor Gary Cohn, Advisor Ivanka Trump, former chief of staff Reince Priebus and Senior Advisor for Policy Stephen Miller- have used private email accounts to conduct official business.

In fairness, no law was broken, and it is not clear at this point that any of them used their private accounts to transmit classified materials, as Clinton did. But I'm still looking forward to listening to all the incoherent reasons why the behavior of Mr. Trump's official staff is OK. Any way you look at it, this was a major security violation, unbelievably hypocritical, and kind of dumb.

Neither the White House nor Jared Kushner's lawyers dispute the revelation.

I have an idea. Maybe the Republicans have the wrong pachyderm as their party symbol. Maybe it should be the Red Hippo, short for "hypocrite."

And the Democrats should ditch their donkey in favor of a blue hippo.

Or perhaps, in view of the Democrats' insistence on absolute ideological purity, their new emblem could be Eric Cartman: