Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and why civility can't return to politics

You can’t “be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about,” Hillary Clinton told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour a week ago, defending the win-at-all-costs mentality that many Democrats are pushing before the midterm elections.

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That was before the Republican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, Scott Wagner, told the Democratic incumbent that he “better put a catcher’s mask on your face because I’m going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes because I’m going to win this.”

It was before street brawls between right-wing and left-wing groups broke out last weekend in Portland and New York. And it was also before President Donald Trump called porn star Stormy Daniels, who was paid $130,000 by Trump’s personal lawyer to keep quiet about sleeping with the billionaire, “horseface” on Twitter.

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