>> Maybe. I suspect the high road leads to camps. <<
Do you think this will ever change anyone’s minds? People like Steven Colbert get the left’s ridicule into the minds of the low-information voters. The Babylon Bee might be funnier than Colbert, but the low road to the low-info voters will always be enemy territory; Babylon Bee is for high-information voters.
We’re not changing minds by taking the high road. Our minds are being changed.
We have ceded so much ground and continue to do so at such a fantastic rate that I suspect this debate no longer even matters.
I do understand your point, and I’m not sure what the right answer is. But it appears that being polite was not the right battle plan.