Kellyanne Conway, campaign manager for U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. (Photo: REUTERS/Carlo Allegri)

Joseph Goebbels, Adolph Hitler's minister of propaganda, was famous for the "Big Lie" -- the notion that an outrageous lie was more likely to be believed. This election season, Donald Trump's spin doctors are gaining fame for their new creation: the "Lie, Pivot and False Equivalency."

The current U.S. presidential race has taxed my patience, particularly when it comes to the ongoing torrent of sexist, racist, misogynistic and anti-democratic statements from one Donald J. Trump. The man definitely has a knack for annoyance although, at this stage, I find his pronouncements more humorous than annoying.

What I continue to find troublesome, however, is what I call Trump's basket of spin doctor deplorables. These are the campaign representatives who appear on news networks like CNN to defend the Trumpian view of the universe.

This group of surrogates includes former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, former Reagan apparatchik Jeffrey Lord and the KKK of the Trump spin universe: Kayleigh McEnany, Katrina Pierson and Kellyanne Conway, his current campaign manager.

They haul out some superficially similar situation and effectively say: "He did it, too!"

Over the years, I've watched spin practitioners from both parties practice their dark art. The expectation, of course, has been that each "doctor" will put the best "spin" on his or her candidate. But in my experience, most such folks, both Democrats and Republicans, were at least willing to concede on obvious points. In this election cycle, however, that rule has gone out the window, at least for Trump's operatives.

The last presidential debate was representative and, as always, infuriating. Although Trump said he wouldn't necessarily accept the result of the election, his enablers either denied he said that or did such a quick pivot that it was surprising that they didn't incur a serious case of whiplash.

Watching a post-debate CNN panel that variously included Lord, Lewandoski, McEnany and Pierson was frustrating. Every one of them employed the same silly talking point, namely that Trump's anti-democratic stance was no worse than Al Gore's delayed concession in the contested 2000 election.