I have been here for 6 years, and I've been in the news threads when they literally first started. I'm not going away because of a bully. You're free to make it plain to others that you're not here for well reasoned debate and discussion, people who present that get blocked. This site's whole set up is premised on 'we don't downvote, we post why and how we disagree.' Are we throwing that out too?
And you're free to use the disengage rule. You've never used it in the past, but I take the fit you're throwing to be an effort at it now.