The fighting since has only escalated.

We've had messy breakups at Breitbart, with Michelle Fields and Ben Shapiro leaving after the site defended the Trump campaign's response to an incident in which Corey Lewandowski, Trump's campaign manager at the time, grabbed Fields by the arm after a news conference. Breitbart mocked both on the way out but was especially hard on Shapiro, describing him in a quickly deleted post as an "ambitious conservative gadfly, who is known to live on the edge, courting and then leaving a series of companies over the past several years."

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Another Breitbart episode involved writer David Horowitz calling Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol a "renegade Jew" for trying to undermine Trump by soliciting an independent presidential candidate.

Kristol has hit the Wall Street Journal editorial board for encouraging Republicans to rally around Trump, accusing the editors of putting "political prudence" ahead of "the fact" that the billionaire "is a man whose temperament and character render him unfit to be president of the United States."

Glenn Beck and Alex Jones, who have a history of antagonizing each other, got into it again when Beck, a Ted Cruz supporter, declared that he couldn't trust news from Matt Drudge anymore. Beck added that his esteem for Drudge has gone down since Drudge started hanging out with Jones, so Jones called Beck a "cult leader" and a "cynical, twisted weirdo."

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And, getting back to Hannity vs. Stephens, the New York Times' Ross Douthat has decided to referee the fight.

It feels like we're seeing on the right side of the press the unfiltered version of what is happening in Republican politics. In both forums, Trump is divisive, but GOP politicians who oppose the business mogul generally say they respect the decisions of those who support him — and vice versa. On the other hand, media figures who disagree about Trump seem to feel free to call each other morons. They're not worried about preserving the dignity of public office — or whatever else it is that motivates politicians to exercise restraint.