What a load.
So the candiates fight back after being smeared by the gutter politics of the DC crowd and this author wants to argue “shut up and take it GOP”
Victims would be those who don’t fight back. What this author is crying about is the GOP candidates are fighting back.
I prefer a candidate like Trump — he just rolls up his sleeves and punches back instead of whining that the librul media is meeeean to him.