Like you say, our problem has always been being too nice, playing by the rules, and extending the same courtesies to opponents that we offer to our own side.
Your war analogy was perfect. This is a war, a different, more modern type. And when true blue Americans realize it, we will quit letting them beat the hell out of us.
Trump shot his own cannons at the little maniac. Well done.
I hate it. I dislike the tenor and the incivility. I wish we could have a government where the elected officials did their jobs, adhered to the guidelines laid down in the Constitution, passed sound budgets, and allowed common sense and real justice to flourish.
Instead, it is a sea of corruption, partisanship, and outright lawlessness.
I often think what the founders would do during these last two years of rioting, looting, and burning, and all I can conjure up is the image of President George Washington on his horse at the head of a column of 13,000 men to personally lead the suppression of The Whiskey Rebellion.
We have let these people run amok for far too long.