Okay, count me out of the mainstream of the new Trump-happy country, post-election 2024.

I do take some solace, though, in knowing that I am still among the fine and sizable majority of Connecticut voters — including some sane Republicans — who rejected the presidential nominee who has been found liable by a citizen civil jury for sexual assault and guilty by a criminal jury of felonies.

I assume, too, that most of my fellow Connecticut Trump rejectors are equally appalled by the lack of moral character of so many of Trump’s picks to populate his new administration.

Remember when you were disqualified from a cabinet post because you didn’t pay taxes on your nanny’s wages?

That seems so quaint in the Trump era, as many Republican senators seem prepared to overlook all kinds of moral failings in Trump’s cabinet nominees.

Maybe that’s why Linda McMahon — nominee for education secretary — who with her husband, Vince, became billionaires peddling off-color, violence-driven entertainment in their World Wrestling Entertainment rings, seems almost a conventional choice to oversee our children’s education.

After all, when you consider that Trump’s nominee for attorney general, the chief law enforcement officer of the country, has been accused of paying to have sex with a 17-year-old girl, the seedy side of McMahon’s wrestling fortune seems tame.

And then there is the nominee to head the Department of Defense, a television host, who is accused of paying a woman to be silent about a sexual encounter that was investigated by police as assault.

Never mind that just this year a new lawsuit was filed against the McMahons, accusing them of turning a blind eye to the sexual exploitation of young men who worked as “ring boys” at the wrestling matches.

The McMahons have denied the allegations through a lawyer, and there is some reporting that the couple is currently separated.

I’m sure Linda McMahon would like to put some distance between herself and her husband, who has been accused in another new lawsuit of sex trafficking and brutal sexual assault, along with another wrestling executive, who the plaintiff says tied her up and took turns assaulting her in an executive office.

Those allegations are also the subject of a U.S. Department of Justice investigation, according to lawyers for the plaintiff, who said they were asked to pause their suit while the criminal investigation unfolds.

According to reporting by the Wall Street Journal, Vince has paid out many millions of dollars to silence women about their sexual encounters with him.

The McMahon nomination by Trump doesn’t surprise me, since she has been a major contributor. What does worry me, though, is how the Connecticut media seems to be sanitizing her background in the stories about her pick as education secretary.

Some mainstream Connecticut news outlets didn’t even mention in stories about her nomination the pending lawsuit accusing her and her husband of allowing sexual abuse of young men working for their company.

Lots of national media did explain the entire story well, especially a long account in the Washington Post of the often sordid history of the wrestling empire the McMahon’s built together, creating an entertainment juggernaut that glamorized violence.

Connecticut reporters and editors should know the McMahon story the best, after she spent $100 million, mostly in local advertising markets, waging two unsuccessful bids for U.S. Senate, losing to Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, both D-Conn.

Connecticut voters seemed to understand, in those two races, that the business that the McMahons created, accused of exploiting employees’ health and overlooking steroid drug abuse, was hardly the environment to create a caring senator from Connecticut.

After all, their boat was named Sexy Bitch. That’s what we need, an education system steered by someone who used to ride on a boat they named with an obscenity.

I think the same is true for the way the failed Senate candidate should be considered as a nominee in whom we would entrust our children’s learning.

Sadly, so far, Connecticut media doesn’t think the accusations still pending against the McMahons are worthy of much attention from their readers and viewers.

I think they’re wrong.

This is the opinion of David Collins.

d.collins@theday.com