Meditating on Comedian's "apology" ("Gee, slut, IF you're offended that I called you a slut, I'm sorry if I left the impression I was trying to be offensive."). The RW has only become like this in my lifetime. There were a few nasties around in the '60s, but they didn't really begin getting this way en masse until Lee Atwater came along. He was the first one who had followers. And, no, I didn't feel sorry for him or set much store by his apology just before he died. Criminals often apologize before someone starts the lethal injection procedure. But what he started really metastasized after President Clinton was elected in 1992. It became virulent by the end of his term in office and now threatens the very fiber of our political process. You'd have to go all the way back to the years prior to the Civil War to find our polity as divided as it is now; not only has the RW made it impossible to compromise, they've made it impossible to talk.
I've believed for a long time, the Republican Party doesn't need to be beaten at the polls; it needs to be destroyed as an effective political force in this country. The crap its members spew (and the dwindling handful of so-called "moderates" enable) is toxic. If you need an example, see Germany in the late 1920s-early 1930s.
Comedian might have extended a modest olive branch had he genuinely apologized; genuinely retracted every syllable, but he didn't. And, no, you disgusting, drug-addled, bag of bile, I don't believe you meant the apology - not in those words after THREE DAYS' WORTH of villifying her.