Read your posts and compare then to Thomas’s opinions. Unless memory fails me completely, he has never denounced the character of colleagues on the other side of an issue.
And none of his coleqgues on the other side of the issue ever accused him of basing his support for original intent on a desire to smoke dope that I recall.
I don't consider personal attacks a valid basis for argument, but if answering them in kind is the only thing that's going to be understood, I can do that if I have to.