We are Sinners; but there are Degrees of Sin.

It's a paradox.

Indeed, we are all sinners; but if it is true there are degrees of sin, as the Catholic church teaches, then some sins are worse than others. Thus ISTM that we can make further judgments about persons and groups based upon the degree of sin displayed. For example, we can judge Peter to be less culpable in denying Christ than Judas. Both sinned, but I'd rather be associated with Peter than with Judas. 😉 I'd rather be associated with 34 than with 45. I'd rather be associated with Marie Yavonovitch and Fiona Hill than with Bill Barr and Rudy Giuliani.

Certainly Romans 3:23 is true, but it doesn't say that all sins are equal. IMO, the Reformation did us a disservice in throwing out distinctions between sins. Sin injures our relationship to God. We judge physical injuries on a scale: Minor; Moderate, Serious, Severe, Critical and Maximal (currently untreatable).. Just as some things injure our bodies more than others, some sins injure our relationship with God more than others.

Protestants who lean more Lutheran and Calvinist in their theologies generally resist that idea, because their implicit nominalism requires binary, either/or, on/off, in/out thinking. This is fine for coarser-grained judgments but prevents making fine-grained judgments. Jesus calls out Levi amd Zaccheus, who were both sinners; but when he calls out the Scribes, Pharisees, and Sadducees, it is in much more severe ways I take this to be evidence that Christ Himself does not conflate sins; that He considers the actions of the Scribes and Pharisees to be worse than those of Levi and Zaccheus. Justification may not need to make the distinctions, but sanctification does.

Therefore, we can affirm that both Republicans and Democrats are sinners. But we must not think that that prevents us from making judgments comparing the immorality of their actionsAs Tim Dowling wrote in "The Guardian, " "It's a triumph of cynicism: we're all just as bad as each other." The mantras, "there are bad people on both sides" and "there are good people on both sides" can be a form of moral agnosticism, if not relativism. We can be discerning without being nasty; indeed, that is the challenge of "speaking the truth in love." (Although I cannot help but remember the way Elijah taunted the priests of Baal, with sarcasm and rude humor!) 😉