Our instinct would have been to let the feuding Democrats continue to tear themselves asunder, each new utterance cementing in the minds of Middle America that the party is far out of touch with reality.
But that's not President Donald Trump, whose habit of picking a scab and watching it bleed can be disconcerting, frustrating and worrisome.
So he not surprisingly couldn't leave alone his recent comments suggesting four congresswomen - three of whom were born in the U.S. - go back to their "original countries."
"The Democratic Congresswomen have been spewing some of the most vile, hateful, and disgusting things ever said by a politician in the House or Senate, & yet they get a free pass and a big embrace from the Democrat Party," Trump tweeted Tuesday morning. "Horrible anti-Israel, anti-USA, pro-terrorist & public shouting of the Fword, among many other terrible things, and the petrified Dems run for the hills."
He's right about all of that, of course, but the "original countries" comment - which itself was taken out of context - was unnecessary and over the top.
Trump actually suggested the four "go back to your countries, fix the problems there - and then come back, and show us how you did it!"
If we had to guess at what the president was getting at, we'd say he was suggesting the congresswomen offer real solutions to some of today's problems instead of rhetoric and more hate. But who knows?
Because on Monday, he also said, "All I'm saying is they don't like it (the U.S.), they can leave."
Trump's timing for the tweetstorm at the four, to us, was unfortunate because the far left wing of the Democratic Party, where the four congresswomen reside, has been at the throats of what are laughably called moderate Democrats. If there are any moderate Democrats left, they've been in hiding, but that's what the national punditry calls Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her ilk.
The four congresswomen the president referred to, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, are among the Democrats who have pushed the most radical ideas, have demanded impeachment proceedings against the president be filed and have been the most vociferous in their general criticism of him.
They also didn't like it when Pelosi agreed to a border funding plan with Trump.
The speaker and her cohorts, though, understand that the radical ideas of the far left are non-starters with Middle America, that impeachment after the release of the Mueller report is ill-conceived and that the president - no matter what they think of him - is popular with many Americans.
So, if the branches of the Democratic Party want to wrestle with each other all the way until November 2020, that should have been dandy.
Plus, likely Trump voters already knew about Ocasio-Cortez, Omar - the only foreign-born of the four - and Tlaib and the hate they spew.
Ocasio-Cortez, the former New York bartender, has been so wildly wrong on her remarks and her suggestions for pie-in-the-sky legislation like the Green New Deal that even Democrats have begun saying her continued verbal vomit - and more from those like her - could cost them to lose the House next year.
Omar has accused Trump of "white supremacy" and of having a "white nationalist" agenda and, without proof, said children at the border were being forced to drink from toilets and that "credible" evidence exists that Trump "colluded" illegally with a foreign country and has committed "high crimes and misdemeanors." She also vowed to "impeach the m-----f-----."
Tlaib, like Omar, also has called for the president's impeachment without offering allegations that would rise to the level of being impeachable offenses.
Pressley, meanwhile, has called Trump "xenophobic and bigoted."
The four held a news conference Monday to blast Trump, with Omar, she of the profane remark, saying, "Every single statement that we make is from a place of extreme love for every single person in this country."
Our point is, with hypocrisy like that, Trump doesn't need to pile on. Voters see through the hate the four regularly deliver. They don't like their ideas. The fact that they're in dispute with Pelosi & Co. is evidence of the lack of cohesion in the party going into an election year.
If the president needs to needle his critics via Twitter - and he seems to - all he needs to do is repeat their remarks, then add, as he often does, "Sad" or Shame." Their country of origin, their race, their gender - that's all unnecessary.
In general, Trump doesn't need to mimic their bad behavior, and they don't need to mimic his. We should as a country have a higher and more mature level of discourse.