This is so spot on. I remember back in the day, before I became self aware, when I would use gestures and words, towards people I considered to be attacking me and degrading me, that my gestures where totally designed to highlight THEIR greatness, and accomplishments, and how right they were to be MY "enemy".
Mocking gestures, jokes and anecdotes were always meant to pump up the opponent, shine their brilliance before ALL the world to see, before Trump did it of course.
God I miss the good old days when normal republicans simply made their enemy stronger and then gave into all of their demands. I miss Mittons, who once drove a VW micro bus, through hostel cannibals, cutting his own leg off as part of the negotiations. That was when America was Great again by god . In turn, the cannibals gave him a 35million $$ private jet.
The canibals said, "a friend that is so giving, you just don't eat all at once, duh".