I was always anti-bully, on account of having been bullied at a young age.

I see any group, any camp, any political party treat other human beings like garbage, and that's all it takes to know who the bad guys are. It doesn't matter how you package the rest of your platform - where your party clocks in terms of humanitarian ethics and basic empathy has been a damn good yardstick for the rest.

From that vantage point, much of this kind of rhetoric and boomer-era politicking has absolutely no relevance for me. I've heard this one before - conservatism as a function of age - and I'm as mystified as ever that it's the kind of thing that gets tossed around.