Sometimes you go where the column is. And sometimes, the column comes to you holding signs about how you're a traitor and a degenerate.

Wednesday morning, a coterie of Donald Trump supporters showed up in the park across from Dallas Morning News HQ to protest this newspaper's Hillary Clinton recommendation for president, the paper's first Democratic nod since 1936. Maybe you read about it — if not in this paper, because you've already canceled your subscription (harumph!), then perhaps on Fox News, whose website wondered last week "Trouble For Trump?"

Hey, at least they cared enough to come down — on their day off? — to spend a couple of hours shouting at the building. I do it at least once a week.

It wasn't exactly an overwhelming protest — around a dozen by my count, mostly women, two of whom were Hispanic and "here legally" (they reminded), and all in favor of building that wall. They traded off carrying a handmade sign calling for a boycott of the newspaper. Others waved pink "Women for Trump" placards printed by the campaign. A few displayed the blue "Trump Make America Great Again!" banner.

My favorite: "Mark Cuban The Village Idiot." Which I assume was a reference to that trade for Rajon Rondo in 2014. But I could be wrong.

A few of the protesters didn't want to give their names, to either me or editor Mike Wilson, who also went down for a quick how-do. Among them was a man carrying a "Degenerates for Hillary" sign, which also said "Basket Case," a reference to Clinton's "basket of deplorables" comment last week. He introduced himself only as "one of the deplorables."

The boss man came down, and the group asked how in the wide, wide world of sports could The News recommend Clinton and betray Texas and God and Tom Landry like that. They talked over him for a bit, and when they ran out of steam, he said that the two editorials speak for themselves but added that they are really just a strong suggestion.

He reminded them that people can still vote for whomever they like in this country.

Trump supporter Kimberly Loyd of McKinney (right) argued with Anthony Saenz of Dallas, a Hillary Clinton supporter, across from The Dallas Morning News on Wednesday. (Jae S. Lee / Staff Photographer)

They seemed to like that and wound up posing for photos with the editor before he went back inside.

Wilson missed the part where Sara Legvold called us the "enemedia" and branded him "an enemy of the state."

I thought she was kidding. Nope.

"If he's a Hillary supporter," she told me, "he's my enemy."

I asked her if she really believed that a handsome man who dresses as smartly as Mike Wilson was a traitor to his country. It's not like he's out there repeatedly saying nice things about Vladimir Putin.

"You know what?" Legvold said. "Putin is more American than Obama is."

Um. Uh. Hmm. You know that's not true, right?

"Yeah, I know it's not true," she said. "But he sure does act it."

Which might be the Trumpiest thing I will ever hear.

That's Mike Wilson, the editor of this newspaper, on the right. That's Kimberly Loyd on the left. And that's me, always in the middle. (Jae S. Lee / Staff Photographer)

To be clear, the whole conversation wasn't like that. Just most of it. Best part was when one woman told me that all media outlets in this country are controlled by four families. I told her The Dallas Morning News was independently and locally owned. Always has been.

"So they tell you," she said.

Yes, I see your point.

Every now and then people would drive by, honking and thumbs-upping the crowd. So this is what it's like when talk radio and Alex Jones and Fox News converge in my front yard.

Maylon Johnson, who said she has worked in AT&T's engineering department for 27 years, told me she's supporting Trump because she's worried that she's going to lose her job to outside contractors. She said her grandmother was a Democrat and that's how she was raised, and that voting for Trump is nothing more than an act of "common sense."

You could tell she was genuinely frightened for the future. I felt it.

When we are all done chatting, after about half an hour, I asked everyone to pose for a group photo in front of the newspaper. At which point, the guy who wouldn't give me his name shouted, "The Mavs suck! Go Spurs!"

Now that's an enemy of the state.