Welcome to the great incivility debate.
I penned an item in the Heron's Nest yesterday and then converted it into today's editorial.
It focused on what I see as a grave national problem - our coarse, partisan debased style of conversation.
It comes in the wake of the weekend incidents in which foes of the Trump Administration and its policies suddenly started confronting Trump aides in public.
Of course the president fired back.
And all of this was BEFORE yesterday's Supreme Court ruling upholding the president's travel ban.
This is where we are, this is what the decision by Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell to not so much as offer a hearing on President Obama's nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the high court, a classic case of obstructionism, has wrought.
I found out yesterday a lot of people - especially those on the Left - to not agree with my call for a more civil tone to our national discussion.
They think we are past that. Frustrated by the actions of the president, they are now more than willing to take a more "in your face" attitude.
And to think the mid-terms are just a few months away.
Buckle your seatbelts.
This one is going to get ugly.
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