What a nice person you are. I feel very positively about our country’s future knowing that you’re here.
We are in a cold civil war. The time of niceties are over forever.
Ad hominem (Latin for “to the person”), short for argumentum ad hominem.
It typically refers to a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.