A taste of their own medicine?

"And when your son looks at you and says, 'Momma, look you won, bullies don’t win,' and I said, 'Baby they don't,' because we’re gonna go in and impeach the motherf---er."

That is the context of the remarks that newly-installed Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan made last week at a gathering by the progressive group MoveOn.org that has many conservatives apoplectic.

Now, that epithet is a word I don’t and wouldn’t use, but it’s a symptom of just how low political discourse has fallen, and it’s by no means Tlaib’s fault. Conservatives have taken potshots, often personal attacks having nothing to do with policy, at their critics for decades, so it shouldn’t surprise that at some point those critics would start firing back. President Donald Trump, the target of her ire, himself has used language every bit as salty, even on the campaign trail and even as president, so he and his supporters don’t have the authority, moral or otherwise, to lecture anyone else on his or hers.

This is a case of “what goes around, comes around” or “you reap what you sow.” Rather than getting ticked off at Tlaib, perhaps such people ought to consider exhibiting some repentance for the atmosphere they helped to create.