Hey, David Frum!
Bite me.
And I guess when you say that you want the discourse to be more grown up and more intelligent, I agree with you on intelligent. I don’t necessarily agree with you on grown up. I think there’s room for all sorts of different kinds of discourse including satire, including teasing, including humor.
There’s a lot of different ways to talk about stuff and Americans absorb things in a lot of different ways.