I have seen comments to the effect, "don't make fun of the madman, we are fighting evil. " No, no, laugh!

"It turns out high spirits and humor are essential to combating autocracy.
Adam Gallagher and Anthony Navone wrote that humor “disrupts dominant discourses and challenges power ‘by disrupting the language and symbols used by those in power to represent reality in a particular way and providing alternative interpretations of that reality." - Wapo

One thing the madman & Rs lack, is humor.