re: Reporters sky scream over having to follow rules of decorum

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No question.

Trump's willingness to address base invectives and baseless innuendos with ignoble responses sets him apart from his predecessors, at least since Truman. But the key there is in the term "responses".

Trump is and has been the target of the most vicious press attacks since Adams ran against Jefferson. Unlike that example though, perverse attacks on Trump have continued unabated past the campaign. It is unprecedented.

He's been targeted by an attempted political coup. So yes, his responses are ugly. They are untraditional. They occasionally border on uncouth. But they are responses, and they are responses in kind.

They are responses to a press so hideous that it engages not just Trump with grotesque, disgusting derisions, but also his wife, his preadolescent son, and the rest of his family.

It is very telling that within such an environment, you'd chose to single out Trump as a "clown".

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