Moonlighter, you are taking heat here because your stance non only is not popular, it does not work. Being a gentleman when dealing with our “esteemed colleagues across the aisle” is perceived as weakness and exploited by the Left.
We are at war culturally and politically with these people (currently, and for the last 45-50 years) and while they have fully understood there is a war going on, we have largely refused to engage them, and they have exploited this imbalance to the fullest.
We have taken the high road, and look where that got us. The faces of conservatives have been pushed in the mud, we have had the instruments of government used against us, we have had people prosecuted for political reasons, and had liberal legislation shoved down our throats.
We have seen a soft coup attempted against a legally elected president that may still be going on as we speak.
Trump is not only the first conservative president, but perhaps one of the first conservative politicians in years or decades to really fight back.
He fights.
We are beyond fortunate to have Trump in this position at this time. It may be likely we won’t see someone like him again. Most people here are not in the least bit concerned about whether Trump uses derisive nicknames against people who want to see him removed from office by any means possible, legal or illegal, peaceful or violent.
We simply aren’t concerned about that. We are concerned about the economy. We are concerned about the corrosive cultural rot imposed by leftist diktat. We are concerned about the deliberate destruction of our foreign policy by the left. We are concerned about unchecked illegal invasion of this country.
Trump fights. That is what counts right now, and every inch we gain back culturally, financially, and constitutionally from the left, is an inch we won’t have to gain back later.
These neverTrump trolls are all over FR today. Check out some of the NK threads.
I think management enjoys the periodic incursions to spice things up a bit. Our job is to not respond to trolls.