"In a perverse way, piling on Trump is just making him more sympathetic."

I don't know if I'd go that far, but it's definitely painting some people as monomaniacal and more than a little histrionic. When BBC reporters were begging via Tweets for his assassination, and CNN was discussing, as calm as if they were discussing the weather, what would happen if he were assassinated, and Hollywood startlets were calling for outright armed insurrection ... we had moved well past principled opposition and into a social panic.

How many of those early "Trump attacks" have turned out to be people so upset by Trump's election win they fabricated racist and sexist attacks to justify their own emotional response? Multiple Muslim people faked attacks on themselves. A church organist painted swastikas and anti-Jewish slogans on his OWN CHURCH. One woman cut her own face.

Obama brought out the Tea Party and the militias. Trump has done the same thing to the progressive camp - exposed the unhinged.