When I said “under special circumstances” I meant “Use Custom Settings”
I opened up Keychain Access and typed in part of the domain name until the pressdemocrat.com certificate showed. I double clicked on the certificate and clicked to show Trust. Under Trust the first thing it said is “When using this certificate” and it said, “Use Custom Settings”. I clicked on that and clicked on “Always Trust”. Then I closed out of Keychain Access and it asked me to OK the change which I did. Then I opened up Safari and typed pressdemocrat.com and it worked!
I had done everything that Apple and the people on Youtube said to do and nothing worked. Today I thought I’ll go to Keychain Access and see if I can affect a change there and it worked!