> dialed up their rhetoric to 11 There appears to have been several years when the then-president of the US frequently made statements which were "dialled up t

> dialed up their rhetoric to 11 There appears to have been several years when the then-president of the US frequently made statements which were "dialled up to 11". Much of the media covering this period dialled their coverage, responses and rebuttals up to 11. Once that behaviour gets entrenched, doesn't it reach a point where it's almost impossible to have a normal exchange?