Posted on 06/29/2018 2:57:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
For decades now, “civility” in politics meant nothing more than for the right to surrender fully and completely to every whim and want of the left.
When denied any whim or want, the left immediately resorts to disruption and violence. Civility only applies to the right.
The days of moral cowards demanding we always lose “with honor and dignity” and such is over.
Meet force with greater force. That’s how wars are won. We are in a war.
Well said.
what? So this guy is on our side?
I kind of like this. He’s saying the equivalent of “We’re above all that” to dems. That’s got to set their teeth grinding.
“President Donald Trump has managed to identify civility with weakness and nuance with fecklessness”
Correction: he exposes weakness hiding behind the skirts of civility, and rejects fecklessness masked in nuance.
Points for referring to him as “President Donald Trump”.
For those who have forgotten, the damage from losing Bork was severe. Swing-vote Justice Anthony Kennedy ended up taking that seat!
I don't know what planet this guy is from, but in my world the only unhinged people are libs. We Trump supporters just want to be left alone, and prefer to do our talking in the voting booth.
They already have abandoned any pretense of having civility.
Has this Nichols guy ever been beat up by Democrat union thugs? Does he remember future Democrats setting off bombs all over the US in the 70’s? Is he really endorsing the Clinton/Obama federal crime wave of the last 2 decades?
” Trump’s enablers”
I think not
This guy teaches at Naval War College?
Wonder if he ever served
Sorry, sunshine, but you can't hide, or lie, about who you are anymore.
The democrats abandoned civility long ago Now they have become violent and it is their violence against the civil order that is backfiring.
Nope
No military time
Strictly an armchair strategist
http://tomnichols.net/blog/about-tom/
Likewise, we need not shout at our neighbors who supported Trump, but we can refuse to engage with them about politics if they are clearly not interested in anything but venting. Too many Trump supporters, in public as well as in private, are interested only in trying to draw a foul, to bait the other person into descending into the murk. A polite refusal speaks more than shouting in their face.
I think most Trump supporters only want to get up and let America work the way it was designed. I think they expect and trust that will happen. I think the left is the one pushing the envelope on politics, as they always have. Little Miss Red Hen was the one who engaged politics with Sarah Sanders and Miss Sanders was the one who politely refused. However, that was not good enough as Little Miss Red Hen further engaged Sarah’s relative’s at the next restaurant. All the Left and the Swamp had to say was, “ Good on you Trump, we will be ready for the next election.” Instead they have tried every low ball maneuver since 2015 to make an example of anyone who is not them to never try this again. It is only for us elites. Now it is too late for them to disengage and get back to civility. They couldn’t if they wanted to.
There is no confusion about how this started. Alinsky and his radical acolytes, like one HRC, Sidvicious, Podesta and that ilk
Mr. Nichols.
Stop trying to help them. Leave them alone, I like them better this way.
This self-avowed Nevertrumper is an idiot ignoramous apologist for the deep state. He is an example of the nuanced fecklessness that got us messes such as NK. Some problems aren’t complex. They are just tough.
Aw heck...it's easier than this entire column to sum up. Democrats aren't used to anyone fighting back when they relentlessly attack.
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