I’m all in favor of restoring civility in our public discourse. But I have yet to find ANY Republican politician these days—with the exception of Tim Scott, perhaps, or Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney—who has any sense of basic decency left. Ever since Newt Gingrich and Fox News opted for demonizing the opposition and sneering at anything resembling compassion for the poor and marginalized populations, the discourse of the Republicans has gone steadily downhill toward outright mean-spirited, loathsome behavior, all personified in Donald Trump, who STILL commands the devotion of some 60-80 percent of Republican voters, despite his utter contempt for basic decency or even the rule of law. So you need to wake up,