I favor as much civility in our discourse as possible but
@mehdirhasan raises a fair point. If your political party stands for insurrectionists, refuses to take common sense steps to deal with massacres of school children & harbors racism then it’s fair to brand you with it.
You’ll never hear the Democrats brand the Republicans as the party of school massacres, Great Replacement theory, and Covid mass death.
They could do that. But they won’t.
Meanwhile the GOP smear Democrats communists, traitors, and pedophiles.
It’s asymmetric warfare.