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“Support your local ICE raid,” read a sign held up by a teenage boy, which also used an epithet to describe how people should treat “foreign friends.”

President Trump — the devil himself, to those roiling inside the hall — was derided as a “punk,” “the orange oligarch,” a small-fisted bully, the “thing that sits in the White House” and assorted unprintable epithets.

According to the classical definition, that would be socialism — or Marxism or communism, whichever epithet we are using today.

Based on history’s lessons, this is a fool’s bargain to the extreme and what will likely be another paragraph in the epithet of America’s multiracial pluralistic democracy.

In the cease-and-desist letter, Collins condemns Healy’s social media “attacks” on his client, the singer’s use of “racial epithets” and his “recent threats of physical violence.”