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Perhaps their punishment will deter others who might similarly endeavor to overthrow a free and fairly conducted election, affronting the country’s values and assaulting our democracy with their deceit.

He was a peacock: intent on blinding small people with his brilliance, affronting an older generation he detested and belittling everyone but himself - especially Vivienne.

Last year, the conservative agitator was forced to apologize for affronting people with recent comments comparing the required wearing of safety masks in the House to the horrors of the Holocaust.

“After Trump is gone, enacting these laws may not be seen as directly affronting him,” Goldsmith said.

That’s part of what’s so insidious about ambient bigotry: in its quotidian ordinariness, it is too easily ignored yet no less outrageous, intolerable — or affronting to its victims.