Yes!
If you truly want to destroy the SNAKE that has injected so much deadly poison into our Free Republic, it is much safer to NOT grab it by the “head” and, instead, cut off what is just behind it.
Eventually, the stench of the ROTTEN head will overcome the fear of the “poison” in its fangs, and people will be more willing and able to admit to being angered and digusted by it, and everything to which it was connected.
Interesting analogy.