I've been writing to the Des Moines Register and now the Eugene Register Guard for over a decade.  I've had exactly one phone call from a person who didn't have the cahones to identify himself (sound familiar), who shouted out his message that it was liberals like me who sought to destroy America.   I wish I would have been home to get the call.    ONE, message left on a phone.

Our writing is nothing close to the purposeful federalist papers.    This is an opinion page, with a very low bar for expertise.  That's fine, but don't bother comparing us to writers of the Federalist papers in skill or purpose.

Your comment on those who are anti-Trump could be applied to the candidate and his followers just as easily.     I put myself at more risk with those who espouse weapons to defend freedom than you do Motley.  How about the Roof murders of black parishioners who we now know lived on hate speech radio and web indoctrination?  Was Timothy McVeigh liberal? 

We both face 'fringe' threats.