For a long time now, I have thought that the GOP are applying a certain type of warfare because they know they cannot win the country by fair means. I think they justify this because they feel they are fighting for their country, and they deem their country to be white.
These tactics include attacking anything, not because they expect to win, but because attacking weakens the opposition, and if you attack often enough, you actually undermine the opposition.
Thus they call libs snowflakes and libtards, and they speak about 'owning them.'
I think this is just another one of those tactics. I wonder if there is some sort of GOP school where they are taught these things on the quiet or if they just pick them up from each other.