With regards to the Boykin issue, and so many others:
The entire situation is simply unacceptable.
The radical right has radicalized the left, and the radicalization of the left needs to continue. As a phenomenon, these ultra-right wingnut cases are on the rise, not on the decline. Boykin is the tip of an iceberg. He is a symptom, not the illness itself, and he is a single fighter, not the entire army.
The question that is underpinning the events of today is not a question of "bipartisanship", "civility", "uniting", "seizing the center", etc. Those are concepts and thoughts of yesterday. Today in America, though many do not realize it, the question underpinning the events of the day is a question of whether or not America avoids some degree of upheaval and collapse.
The radical right is making an all-out bid for total political of the country and its foreseeable future. It is a political blitzkrieg. Law and government structure, as well as common understanding of law and government structure are being heaved aside in the bid for power. If the PR campaign for hearts and minds, as hideously well-funded as it is, waged by the radical right continues to succeed, then the radical policies of the rightwing will produce growing instability inside the country and outside as well and the consequences will be some form and degree of historical disaster.
Unfortunately, the "liberal" political leadership in America is primarily comprised of older people who are accustomed to civil, reasonable disagreement within the country's political processes, and they don't seem to be aware of the reality of the radical right movement or up to the task of countering that movement.
This is why radicalization of the left needs to continue. Increasingly aggressive grassroots "resistance" in the various forms it takes is really
the only hope of countering the radical right movement before it truly takes over and begins to blossom. When that has happened, then the real problems will begin to appear and the situation will look much worse than it does already today.
Again, Boykin is just a symptom. It is the radical right political establishment that somehow needs defeat in order to insure the better future for America we all want.