We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners

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"I know of no left-wing publication that has followed the example of the right-wing Federalist and run quasi-pornographic fantasies about murdering political enemies. (“Close your eyes and imagine holding someone’s scalp in your hands,” began a recent Federalist article.)

Unlike Trump, no Democratic politician I’m aware of has urged his or her followers to beat up opposing demonstrators. 

Instead, some progressive celebrities have said some bad words, and some people have treated administration officials with the sort of public opprobrium due members of any other white nationalist organization. Liberals are using their cultural power against the right because it’s the only power they have left, and people have a desperate need to say, and to hear others say, that what is happening in this country is intolerable. 

Sometimes, their strategies may be poorly conceived. But there’s an abusive sort of victim-blaming in demanding that progressives single-handedly uphold civility, lest the right become even more uncivil in response.

— Michelle Goldberg, NY Times

MEANWHILE OVER IN ENGLAND--

Protestors have gotten approval to fly a 20 foot tall angry baby Trump float while the Orange Savage is there.

Trumplethinskin is making plans to avoid London as much as possible in response

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