Certainly. It is the spiritual principle that Orwell's protagonist in "1984" struggled with. The individual mind vs. the collective mind. He wondered if he truly was insane simply because he believed something that no one else did. The collective said "yes, you are". The collective decides what truth is, your personal experience is of no value. You must reject what your mind tells you and accept the "truth" as defined by the party. The power of the party lies in that total submission of mind.
Bubba was their great hope. He forged "the ring". All his faults had to be overlooked, denied, ignored and/or restructured into positives. ie His childhood was scarred by an alcoholic stepfather therefore; he was a victim, he is like "us", that is good. To them he is not corrupt he is corrupted and more importantly he is unrepentant. Why would that be good you ask? Because in the psychology of victim hood it is someone else’s fault he is corrupt. To them to be repentant is hypocritical. To take blame for your own failings and repent is seen as a way to place yourself above others. That is what the left sees as evil.
The reality is he betrayed everyone, always. They can make that make sense by thinking “only someone as corrupted as Bubba could take "the ring" away from the evil Republicans." Algore was their next great hope. He could deliver them from all of the contradictions of Bubba. Or at least the most glaring ones. The ones that made them vulnerable to attack. It was OK that Bubba was vile and filthy to the core because, for the greater good, he was going to pass "the ring" to the more innocent Algore. The Spock like professor of the faith. But the "evil Bush" stole "the ring" from him. It could only be thus for them. Only some dark magic, some evil trickery could prevent "the peoples ring" from going to its rightful owner.
When rationality, common sense and logic are applied to collectivist/humanist ideology at any point on any level it begins to disintegrate. The only defense their ideology of collective good and collective guilt/victim hood has against the truth is to deny it, deflect it and/or distort it whenever the truth arises or, like a spark taking flame amongst kindling, their whole house of cards will be consumed. Everything has to be supported and promoted by an emotionalism that overrides the rational mind and defends the collective no matter what. On any given subject or in any situation logic has to support the preordained conclusion which has to fit the emotional paradigm of the overall doctrine. The rule there is that the conclusion has to make you feel good. The logic is; all bad results are someone else's fault.