Mr. Pastis, you are missing the strategy for the tactics. The point of all the yelling and insulting and prevaricating is to convince the bystanders. Republicans figured it out in the 90s. Centrists still haven’t. Democrats have, but are not organized enough or bloody minded enough to do anything yet. If you want the yelling to stop, call out what it is they are yelling about.
Didn’t Phil used to be Black?