I have been saying that politics is war. I don't mean to suggest that it is the nature of politics to be war, but only that in the present circumstances it is. When is politics war? When the constitutional order is no longer respected. And that is now in the USA. To mention just three things under assault by the Left: the First Amendment, with its protections of religious liberty and free speech; the Second Amendment; the Electoral College.
The leftist sees politics as war. And so that is how we must see it if we are to meet their attack. It is the foolish conservative, living in the past, hobbled by his virtues and hindered by his decency, who sees politics as a gentlemanly debate by agreed-upon rules under an umbrella of shared principles. There are no such rules, and there is no such umbrella.