@maxdancona,
Show him the video of a Rand Paul campaign coordinator attempting to "curb" a small woman and getting arrested before he actually knocks any of her teeth out. He did go to jail.
https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/rand-paul-supporter-arrested-fired-from-campaign-in-assault-incident/
Rand Paul Supporter Arrested, Fired From Campaign, In Assault Incident
Doug Mataconis · Wednesday, October 27, 2010 · 20 comments
Late yesterday police made an arrest in the incident I wrote about yesterday:
A Rand Paul volunteer who allegedly stomped on a woman’s back and head during an altercation outside Kentucky Educational Television studios in Lexington before Monday night’s debate has been issued a criminal summons to appear before a Fayette district judge.
Tim Profitt, who was Paul’s Bourbon County coordinator, hasn’t been charged with a crime, said Lexington police spokeswoman Sherelle Roberts. But, she said, he could be charged with 4th degree assault, a misdemeanor, if the case is sent to a grand jury.
Profitt was “disassociated” from the Paul campaign after it learned that he might have been involved in the incident.
https://www.louisville.com/content/kentucky-head-stomper-aka-curbstomper-interviewer-found-tim-profitt-tough-approachable-conse
SNIP!
In total, I probably talked to Profitt for less than 10 minutes. My overall impression of him was of a tough but approachable conservative, someone working hard and looking forward to victory. In other words, he seemed like a basically normal political person.
He did not strike me as someone who would stomp on the shoulder/head/neck of a 23-year-old woman and then ask her to apologize.
But this is what happens when we coarsen our attitudes in a fever of rhetoric and dehumanize the other side. Profitt’s actions and lack of contrition for them are saddening, disturbin, and deeply unhealthy for our political process. And we should say so, on all sides of the political spectrum.
This anger is not okay; it’s stomping on our democracy.