Is this why the rhetoric seemed to escalate from zero to batshit out of nowhere? I’m sure there was a slow burn I wasn’t aware of but I remember when it erupted I couldn’t find much of a ramp up. I’ll always treasure the phrase forkless riffraff, regardless

I think so in part. Admittedly this is before I was following things as closely because I was in the weeds of parenting challenges and exhausting nonprofit work. But I remember our certain CA members absolutely losing their shit. Even though we’re on the other side of Duke.