Establishment Republicans would rather lose with honor and dignity than get their hands dirty and their noses bloodied in a street fight.

Politics ain't beanbag, as the expression goes, except to genteel Republicans who prefer the wimp approach of giving a pleasant concession speech as opposed to taking the badass approach and punching back twice as hard when attacked.

Greg Gutfield, one of the few remaining conservative voices on Fox News, made the case for Donald Trump on his recent show.

Watch or allow me to paraphrase:

When you are watching vintage Trump, you have to realize this is how he is going to be in meetings with people who are not friendly to the United States.

He is not a figurehead, he's an agent, he's your agent, he's America's lawyer. He's in the room to represent his client, America. Your needs and your concerns. He's supposed to be an asshole. He's not interested in impressing the other people in the room.

I want an agent or a lawyer with that relentless energy that makes people upset. And the country needs that.

This guy is going to be that way in a room with people that have been screwing us over. You want the guy that nobody likes because they don't like him for a reason.

Fortunately, I have never been through a divorce, sued anyone, nor been a criminal defendant. But if I did, I would want a lawyer who is tough, a badass, willing to fight tooth and nail for me the client. Not someone who puts up a civil and stately argument, while leaving his or her client on the losing end.

There is much hand-wringing and pearl-clutching among the Republican smart set over Trump's demeanor, his mean tweets and name-calling, his eagerness to fight on the same scorched earth playing field as do Democrats.

Trump gives his opponents nicknames. It's branding and he is a master of that due to his New York City upbringing and years in the business and reality television world. And it works. Just ask Low Energy Jeb, Little Marco, or Crooked Hillary.