By Earick Ward As a long-suffering California Republican, I have engaged the radical left for the past couple decades and have found their modus operandi to be this; create a caricature of their opponents, and demand that said opponents defend said caricature.  Racist, misogynist, homophobe, xenophobe, ageist, on and on and on.  Who among us, over the past handful of years has not been tarnished by the broad brush of these ad hominem claims? You and I know they're nonsense, but it seemed the more we argued against the claims, the more the general populace seemed to accept them as truth.  If we ignored...