‘Civility’, they say

This morning, Sunday in America, the weekend talk shows are in full swing, and if you had a dollar for every time “we need a return to civility” is being uttered you would be rich indeed.

Ah, civility, which the mainstream media’s flying monkeys would have you believe is running deficits on both sides of the political divide. Civility like the New Republic cover pictured above. Once, years ago, the weekly magazine was a sane, reliable source of centre left nostrums and perspectives. No longer. It changed hands several years ago and, well, that cover equating Trump with one of history’s greatest mass murderers has been standard fare ever since.

You want more civility? Try veteran congresswoman Maxine Waters, who marked Trump’s 2016 victory by urging Democrats to get in Republican’s faces, abuse them in restaurants and department stores. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump’s first flak, was driven from a Virginia eatery within days.

It has been a relentless, multi-faceted assault ever…