As a retired business owner for thirty six years, I have first hand knowledge of what this type of gorilla warfare can do. Our business, as well as many others in my demographic, were targeted once it came out that I supported the recall of Skippy Walker, the scourge of Wisconsin, then secondly, when we put a sign up banning weapons from our high end store.
Letters were sent to us, anonymously of course because they talk big but are too afraid to reveal themselves, saying that they were going to spread the word to others of their ilk not to patronize our store. Put that on top of a slowly recovering depression, and the rapid rise of hate politics, and you have a recipe for decline.
Fortunately for us, retirement was close, and though not propagated solely by these actions alone, we decided that our best future was retirement.
These issues were never on the table until Republican hate mongering, originating by the likes of Rush Lindbaugh and others created a divide that fell into the lap of Republicans with comfort. I dont envision a pleasant ending to the mess that were in, as we all know that Trump is going to publicly call for civil unrest if not re-elected, as he has already verbalized.
Good Luck, America. The Democratic Party had best fight now, and fight hard, because our adversary, the Republican Party, has a game plan and is already been showing its cards.