Mitch McConnell was chased out of an restaurant by protesters. - Polidicks

lol only peaceful protest sanctioned by my thin skinned fucking baby feelings is allowed

Yes, we need more Portlands and Berkeleys. Just like political accountability doesn't just apply while you're on the job, democracy goes beyond the ballot box.

I'm struggling to see the parallel besides it being the Political team you dislike doing the protesting.

This ties in with my historical gripe with fencesitters: the vichy regime during ww2 is a prime example of fencesitting gone absolutely wrong. For four years there the great majority of France has conveniently ignored the occupation by nazi germany and shapeshifted into shrubbery, occasionally pulling up a chair to the vichy blame game against communists and the resistance. They closed their eyes to the horrors that happened on their frontyards, and quickly hopped onto the De Gaulle bandwagon of redemption at liberation day to claim their place on the right side of history. It turns out, legitimizing apathy as valid political praxis will help to foster the most inane political discourse: that according to which there is no concievable reality outside the statu quo, and whose only enemy is anything coming from the left field (no pun intended, I meant that figuratively). When this degree of self-imbued normalcy is reached, you can have literally the biggest genocide in human history going on in the background and reject its existence for 30 years on end, which is exactly what happened here. Of course, occupation is a very different framework than democracy, but remember: vichy’s strength was never in its scarce agents who actively collaborated with Berlin, but in the million frenchmen who decided to go on about their daily lives while the country was set ablaze.

Of course it shouldn't be shunned. Civility has historically just disproportionately expected from those without power or a voice. It's about forcing you to come with your tail between your legs when you ask for some scraps at the negotiating table. I think people are finally waking up to the fact the moderates are just careerists and opportunists.

I guess the radicalization of the GOP and much of the right is just a foregone conclusion that people just accept nowadays. I can't imagine anyone going to the donald and asking them to be civil, maybe stop going on about seth rich.

As a Republican president once said, it's the soft bigotry of low expectations. Trump is the face of the American right, and populist nativist right-wing movements abroad, so their standard of civility is practically non-existent

Tbh shitheap politicians like Mitch McConnell deserve all the slapping they get so long as they continue to lie, weasel through the system and act directly against the interests of their constituents. I don't see any other way they'll learn especially if they keep trying to rig the system through legal means (disinformation, gerrymandering, stalling voters)