Thank you, HM, for what may well have been an unintended consequence of exposing the essence of this forum's inveterate moralist. Much like a young boy who mimics the batting stance and swing of his favorite ballplayer, our rural rube fancies himself a latter-day Mencken, betrayed by his aping of the satirist's style, his cadences, even his absent-minded sprinkling of "indeed" and phrases like "ipso facto." And Mencken, as everyone knows, was fascinated by Nietzsche. Yes, it all makes sense now. Just as that young boy's dream never escaped the sandlot, the Mencken worshipper's limits are circumscribed by carefully cataloged op-ed filler masquerading as reason and pith.

A side note: Check out "Men versus the Man: A Correspondence between Robert Rives La Monte, Socialist, and H.L. Mencken, Individualist [1910]," available online, and pages 116-117 for Mencken's views on . . . well, you'll see.. It makes Trump's stump rhetoric sound like Gandhi.