Did you see the video from Jim Jordan’s opening statement at Barr’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee? It was great.
Had a section with about 20-25 media types and Leftist politicians intoning “Peaceful Protestors!”
1. showed actual real footage of violent attacks that you keep in your mind when they got around to speaking about Portland. [set the terms of the debate -- don't wait for others to set them for you]
2. began with the monotonical incantation 'peaceful protesters' repeated ad nauseum so that when they intoned it they would seem ridiculous. [make your opponent look personally ridiculous]
3. He broke the rules by not giving them advance warning of the video [being boy scouts and complaining to the teacher every time the democrats break the rules achieves nothing. if they're breaking rules so are we.]
If the GOP followed this playbook starting in 1980 we'd be in a very different place today.