I'm one of you, and always have been.

When he's making an iron tool, the blacksmith beats the item repeatedly, then he cooks it, then beats it a lot more. This action is essential to give the iron the needed properties for its ultimate use.

When TRP is "beaten" by your convincing arguments, your clever analogies, your most incisive mockery, the final product is a stronger, longer-lasting ideology.

If all of you had maintained a dignified silence on TRP over the last three years, the sub would be a dead, microscopic version of its current state.

Its relevance is entirely down to your work. It has become better at fielding your criticisms precisely because it gets so much practice at dealing with attacks.

It's remarkably similar to how Clinton bungled the election against the president.

Am I literally the only opponent of TRP to observe this?