[P-Marlowe]

Insulting those that you seek to persuade is rarely a smart idea.

LOL!

You need to tell that to THE ONE. His whole schtick is insulting anyone who disagrees with him or challenges him.

[MortMan]

And yet the establishment and NRO (is that redundant?) resort exactly to the same tactic they decry.

Now what was it that is considered the most sincere form of flattery?

I am not especially a Trump supporter. I am most assuredly an anti-establishment conservative. When the establishment tries to browbeat me into submission, I tend to rebel. Those voices screaming loudest are the first ones filtered out. In this election, the establishment may have belatedly discovered they went too far in the past - and hysterics are all they have left to get the base back on their special corner of the plantation.