I will say speaking from experience that ignoring trollies is not an effective way to get rid of them. It may be valuable to a certain extent for community members on internet forums not to engage with them, but only because that makes it easier for good moderators to kick them out and then clean up the aftermath.
In reality, you don’t stop getting bullied by putting up with it.
This behavior was normalized when Rush Limburger mounted the radio airwaves to power, pumping his mic in a post-viagra overdose orgy until the audience was spewing the bullshit lines with him. Chump is a chump in comparison, half the wit and none of the originality of that hypocritical cactus fluffer.
You know, there are many a countries out there where the residents don’t hear daily about their presidents’ -crazy or other- antics.
Instead, these presidents just rather quietly and uneventfully lead the respective governments and go about their daily business.
Not even the newspapers there might be mentioning, on a daily basis, that the government is essentially one giant sham-shitshow.
“When someone is acting inappropriately, don’t normalize it. Make it clear to everyone that you are not okay with the behavior.” Exo: A Jumper Novel by Steven Gould