And do you naively think the extremists in your party were ever swayed by that apology? Not in the slightest. To my knowledge, he never discouraged any violence against the SCOTUS justices, either. The damage has been done, and people, no matter who they are or how stupid they might be, have the capacity for memorization and the ability to act on the false rage those comments cause. The age of the comments he made is irrelevant, the apology is meaningless, namely because it did not stop the attempted assassination of Kavanaugh, the doxxing of ACB's children, or the leak of the Dobbs draft.
You underestimate the staying power of comments like that.
