re: #52 The Ghost of a Flea
Trump is a counterpuncher in the same way an angry, drunk man hitting his partner for pointing out he’s angry and drunk is a counterpuncher.
If everything merits the same level of retaliation, then it’s a vice not a strategy.
Outside of the boxing context it is pretty much exclusively the language of DARVO. In that in practice it cedes the idea that any combat was mutual.