No, we look weak and inattentive if we don't counterpunch back.
The Republican blind spot is how we always talk ourselves out of engaging in-kind with the Democrats. If we punch back, declaring that this is an idiotic comment not based in facts, it puts the LAAP-dog media on the defensive to explain themselves. That exposes the issue to their viewers and makes THEM go "crap, that was an own-goal."
If we stay silent, then the media will just ratchet up the dialog even more the next time because there is no resistance.
-PJ
Absolutely punch back. But ridicule him saying “That’s the most outlandish metaphor I’ve ever heard. How can you compare him to a pro-American war hero and a strong lumberjack with workingman values? That is preposterous. He is the antithesis of what you called him. He is anti-American through-and-through. And Charlottesville was a complete anti-Trump fabrication.”
Too many are believing he called him a true war hero and are “fact checking” that statement. That is foolish.