Absolutely agreed! The issue I have -- and this seems to be a modern, last-10-years phenomenon -- is that an attack on one party's candidate is responded to by

Absolutely agreed! The issue I have -- and this seems to be a modern, last-10-years phenomenon -- is that an attack on one party's candidate is responded to by attacking the other party's candidate on a different issue. That's... not normal. And didn't used to be as common as it is now. You answer the question/issue, as proposed. You can append an attack on the other party after the response, but people have gotten in a habit of lazily skipping the first step, and I think the quick-take nature of internet discussion has exacerbated this. "Trump did this!" "Well, here's something the Democrats did!" "Kamala did this!" "Well, here's something the Republicans did!" Neither of those addresses the original point.