re: I am in my late 40s, remember back to Reagan...

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...and am pretty knowledgeable about American political history.

The scope and breadth of these attacks on Trump are unprecedented.

What's more, they are in every sense a "crossing of the Rubicon" in American politics. The poisonous climate is DC is metastasizing and the citizenry is going to suffer.

I lay this squarely at the feet of the Left and I pray that the GOP will find a backbone and that Trump will soldier on.

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You and I are about same age. I also grew up in the 80s and I've been a student of history dating back to my childhood days. And I completely agree wit your post 100%. There is one problem though. I don't think the problem with the GOP is a lack of backbone, at least not at the leadership level. The problem is they're just as hostile towards changing the culture in Washington (and thus hate Trump) as the progressives.

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The left is seriously becoming un American.

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Everything politics is becoming un-American. There is guilt of this on both sides, but each conveniently ignores its own failings to press on the failings of the other.

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The scope and breadth of these attacks on Trump are unprecedented.

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Breadth? Sure. Because the country is larger than ever before and we have access to things like the internet, etc.

Scope? Eh, not so much.

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Written attacks by Jefferson supporters claimed Adams was a “hideous hermaphrodital character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.”

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Adams’ campaign retaliated, calling Jefferson a “mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father.”

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Jackson and his wife, Rachel, were vilified by Adams’ campaign. They were called “adulterers,” after Jackson’s opponents discovered Rachel was still married to her first husband when she married Jackson. Jackson’s enemies called his wife a bigamist and his mother a “common prostitute.”

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Just some examples of how terribly toxic American politics have been.