civility

You know this, I know this, and all of the smarmy pundits clucking about civility and counseling graciousness in defeat know this.

There often isn’t much respect and civility among the incoming messages on his social media feeds.

“That type of debate, through a lens of respect and civility, is something that I’ve always kind of envisioned and gravitated to. When it comes to politics, I enjoy it. It’s interesting to me. It’s entertaining to me.”

For nearly a decade now, Donald Trump, sexual predator and now convicted felon, has trampled even the loosest definition of civility into the ground.

Instead, it hollowed out newsrooms while privileging callow plutocrats who smarmily inform us that civility and neutrality will cure the crisis that they and their peers created.