Since our country’s founding, politics has always been a contact sport. Partisans routinely vilify opposition party leaders by applying outrageous labels to caricature figures and ideologies they loathe (George W. Bush was called a “fascist, Nazi, war criminal” and Barack Obama a “socialist, closeted Muslim”). And witnessing the Left’s freak-out over the election of Donald Trump has provided us some sterling examples of this condition.

But one in particular once made me giggle at its absurdity.