You also keenly ignore the obvious troll movement going on pushing anti dem anti vote propaganda coming from this very lemmy instance.

Whether there’s an anti-vote anti-dem troll movement coming from whatever instance is irrelevant.

So no, I don’t regret asking the commentor to back up their post with any form of policy or factual issue.

You asked the user to back up something they didn’t say because you misunderstood their comment. You didn’t ask for “any form of policy or factual issue” you asked them to give you a specific trump policy that would help fix the issue when they never said a trump policy would help fix the issue. The reason you don’t regret this is because you’re stupid and rephrasing things in such a dishonest way is not something you can do to someone who’s seen the entire conversation; delusion and copium poisoning should be a private affair.

If they simply were venting on the current state then fine but yall all [sic] rushed in on cue to defend an offhand comment.

Only I “defend[ed]” the original comment which is what I guess you’re referring to by the “offhand comment,” and you could similarly say you “rushed in on cue” to criticize an offhand comment, except you did it with your brain turned off. Just genuine nonsense. Disengage and reflect.