Tag: Simran Jeet Singh

That’s why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and/ or the Senate, that’s when civility can start again.” In response, the Majority Leader took to the Senate floor to rail against Clinton’s remarks, and the “mob tactics” of others on the left. But fortunately, the American people know that the fact-free politics of hate, fear and intimidation are not how we actually govern in our democratic republic.” McConnell isn’t the only Republican calling for a return to civility in politics in the wake of the blistering fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. This week, Senator Lisa Murkowski, the only Republican who voted against Kavanaugh, came to the defense of fellow GOP moderate Susan Collins, saying on the Senate floor that the harassment over her “yes” vote must end. It’s okay to just find the good.” Despite McConnell’s broad attack on the left, some Democrats still sound closer to Murkowski than Clinton. The word “divisive” appears elsewhere, in report after report about the Kavanaugh confirmation and its aftermath; the same term is frequently applied to Donald Trump. Euphemisms, whether the term is “incivility” or “racially tinged,” have a veiling effect. As Michelle Obama herself acknowledged in a subsequent comment to Hoda Kotb, the process of change implies some discomfort. Trump is not the first president to break up some migrant families; Obama did the same. But Trump and his party are the first to implement a broad policy that separated migrant children from their parents, sometimes permanently. That’s the real problem.