What is best in life is to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
-Conan the Barbarian
There is a very popular category of video on youtube and other places, that I call the DESTROYS video. The general format is [person from Our Side] DESTROYS (this is usually in all-caps) [person from Their Side]
You’ve seen them —
“Rachel Maddow DESTROYS Kellyanne Conway”
“Glenn Greenwald DESTROYS NSA Apologist”
The other side does it too:
“Michelle Bachman DESTROYS Chris Matthews”
The thing is, these kinds of videos make it harder to do the work we really need to do, which is convince some of their voters to vote for us.
We don’t need to DESTROY them, we need to CONVINCE them.