KURT SCHLICHTER FLASHBACK: Oh Good, We’re Doing The Civility Thing Again.

See, here’s the problem. Appeals to things like “civility” or “decency” require that those things be values so strongly and widely held that people will abide by them even when it costs them something important in the way of short-term political advantage. As we’ve seen, there’s literally nothing that Democrats won’t sacrifice in order to obtain short-term political advantage. Thus . . . .