Thank you for the compliment. I’ll leave out the secret rituals but emphasize one more point about this particular subject that relates.
I get, heck we (the P&E mods by volume, but all of us) -get- it. Trump 2.0 is not a normal political situation. Trump 1.0 wasn’t either, but this is far worse politically. So we KNOW emotions are high, we try to put ourselves in your shoes (it’s not hard). And we’ve made note after note after note. But at the end of the day, we try to set expectations. When we split the thread, it was an effort to keep the moderation reasonable and distinct, but the real kicker is @Aspenglow’s lovely words:
Bonus points because she can say it in a paragraph and not in a book.