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Smartphones disorient people, and a lot of what civility is is knowing where you are, who you’re with, and our standards change depending on where you are and who you’re with,” he said.
Cornfield has found Trump’s behavior to be less of a deviation from typical hardball campaigning than others, at least when it comes to attacking other politicians, foreign countries, and the media.
“Take name-calling, for example. A lot of people have gone after Trump and said that’s rude…,” he said. “Name-calling is standard in American politics, particularly when you are campaigning for office.”
Carolyn Lukensmeyer, executive director of the National Institute for Civil Discourse at the University of Arizona, pointed to additional causes of division, including partisan gerrymandering, voter suppression, and too much money being spent on politics.
“American politics has been broken for some time,” she said. “It did not just happen in the 2016 election.”
This is not to say Trump and the cavalcade of candidates who rolled in the mud with him throughout the campaign helped matters any.
“We saw behavior modeled by people running for president of the United States that we haven’t seen before,” Lukensmeyer said.
Many progressives see calls for civility in the battle against a proudly uncivil president who ran on combating “political correctness” as unilateral disarmament. Liberals harangued Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., at a town hall Monday with demands to resist Trump and discard decorum.
“We are in a gunfight and we have a butter knife,” one activist said, according to the Washington Post.
Others warn matching Trump’s egregious behavior with their own further energizes his base and alienates moderate voters.
“Donald Trump’s all-over-the-place, very unpresidential vitriol is contagious and has destroyed the Republican Party’s ability to speak to swing voters,” said Democratic strategist Craig Varoga. “The challenge for Democrats in this toxic environment is to learn from Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, who personally may have experienced outrage but were never publicly outrageous, and always remained strong and reasonable under the most excruciating circumstances, and always kept the moral high ground.”
Politics in America has rarely been a polite enterprise, but Lukensmeyer said the rhetoric is currently the worst it has been since the post-Civil War era. The institute had a graduate student watch every modern presidential debate before the Trump-Clinton debates, and the difference was stark.
“There just was no kind of personal attack like we saw between Clinton and Trump and the kind of stalking behavior we witnessed on the stage…,” she said. “In terms of literally the actual language, sometimes inciting violence, that has not been seen in modern political history period.”
One significant change in the wake of the 2016 election is the continued animosity people feel 18 months later not just toward candidates but toward each other over whom they voted for.
“We still have Americans hating, vilifying, and demonizing people who voted for the other candidate,” Lukensmeyer said.
The National Institute for Civil Discourse has received calls from people unable to interact with relatives at holiday dinners, religious leaders dealing with congregation members not speaking to each other, and corporations whose staffs have not returned to pre-election levels of productivity.
Alan Dershowitz, a prominent attorney and former Hillary Clinton supporter, has witnessed this backlash as he becomes increasingly vocal in defending the legality of President Trump’s actions. He complained in an op-ed for the Hill this week that he has been shunned by liberals in Martha’s Vineyard as a result.
On Fox News Thursday, Dershowitz went further, telling Tucker Carlson, “At a party this week on Martha’s Vineyard, a woman said, ‘If Dershowitz were here tonight, I’d stab him through the heart.’”
Another difference from past periods of political division highlighted by Clayton is the open incivility of the White House itself, which recently used its Twitter account to accuse specific Democrats of supporting MS-13.
“You haven’t seen the sort of explicit baiting of the opposition coming from the White House,” he said.
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