Name-calling

Name-calling is never productive.

Now they find themselves in a dangerous game of name-calling and one-upmanship.

The candidates insulted each other with cutting barbs, name-calling and personal attacks.

We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.

So inflammatory were the words of some preachers during these trying years that a resolution to silence, by mayoral proclamation, a continuation of name-calling from the pulpit was presented to the city council by one would-be pacifier.

The next day things got heated in the schoolyard as the name calling began. It was three against one.

[…] a former Republican lawmaker who left the Legislature earlier this year after she clashed with party leaders over a series of proposed transgender bills and closed-door meetings, she said, devolved into yelling and name-calling.

Can dark woke get the Democrats a Senate seat back in Ohio? What about Montana? Will enough name-calling put the Democrats in the mix in Missouri? It’s unlikely.