Like a soccer game of American seven-year-olds with all players mobbing the ball up and down the field, American media is now mobbing around what an INSULT COMIC said. An INSULT COMIC.

Disingenuous pearl-clutching ensues, including by the sitting President, who, either in an eye-for-an-eye riposte or a Freudian slip of honesty, returned the favor in kind.

The pearl-clutchers ignore the INSULT COMIC part, and make far-fetched apostrophic excuses for the President when it would be a lot easier to say: He's an old man who’s losing it, give him a break.

Let's admit it, both sides view voters on the other side as fascists or socialists or communists or racists or baby-killers or bigots or woke wingnuts or whatever. We've been trained to demonize.

I'm old enough to remember the good old days of the 60s when nobody cared what your politics were, they were just your neighbors, and citizens voted for their choice and then got on with life. (Before you start, yes, the 60s had problems too—no era is idyllic.)