That's
always been the left's response to politicians they don't agree with:
Harass, attack, belittle, demean, threaten, scream … and repeat. Unlike
Republicans, however, the left never gets called on its hate-mongering.
Civil Society: When not worrying that its increasingly hostile
anti-Trump antics might backfire on Democrats, the left is busy blaming
President Trump's own incivility for the ferocity of their attacks. But
this is exactly how the left treats all conservatives, rough-hewn or
not.
After a week in which a celebrity called for the abduction of the
president's young son, a restaurant kicked out Trump's spokesman, and a
mob harassed the Homeland Security secretary, Democrats are starting to
wonder if their "resistance" is getting out of hand — while
refusing
to take any blame for it.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi managed to perfectly encapsulate
this when she said "Trump's daily lack of civility has provoked
responses that are predictable but unacceptable."
The blame-Trump-first meme
has been catching on fast.
Writing in the Washington
Post, Paul Waldman complains about having "to
hear, in the era of Trump, that liberals are the ones being 'uncivil'….
You've got to be kidding me."
CNN's Byron Wolf says
today's lack of civility "should surprise exactly
no one in a time when the president uses the imagery of invaders and
infestation to describe immigrants."
Writing in USA Today, Jason
Sattler argues that we should "stop
defending decorum and do something about Donald Trump," who, Sattler
says, is "running a propaganda campaign against immigrants that incites
comparisons to Hitler's early attacks on Jews."
Nobel
Peace Prize winner Betty Williams gave a speech at a women's peace
conference in Dallas in 2007 declaring that "right now, I could kill
George Bush." The audience laughed, and she won praise for her
"bravery."
The winning film at a 2006 Toronto film festival was a movie —
Death of a President — that realistically depicted Bush's assassination.
But the suggestion that things would be better and tempers cooler if
Trump weren't so abrasive is utterly and completely false.
Consider the "civility"
shown by Democrats toward the eminently civil "compassionate
conservative" President Bush.
Protesters regularly carried signs saying things like "Save Mother
Earth, Kill Bush," "Hang Bush for War Crimes," "Bush=Satan," "Bush is
the only Dope worth Shooting." They burned Bush and other
administration officials in effigy countless times.
Jonathan Chait wrote a 3,600-word word piece for the New Republic in
2003 on "the case for Bush hatred." In it, he admitted that "I have
friends who … describe his existence as a constant oppressive force in
their daily psyche."
Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams gave a speech at a women's
peace conference in Dallas in 2007 declaring that "right now, I could
kill George Bush." The audience laughed, and she won praise for her
"bravery."
Pollster Geoff Garin told The New York Times that Bush hatred was "as
strong as anything I've experienced in 25 years now of polling."
The winning film at a 2006 Toronto film festival was a movie — Death of
a President — that realistically depicted Bush's assassination.
The left regularly compared Bush to Hitler, just as they are now with
Trump.
Playwright Harold Pinter
said
that "the Bush administration is the most dangerous force that has ever
existed. It is more dangerous than Nazi Germany."
Harry Belafonte called Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world."
[...] Sure, Trump's barbed rhetoric and insults fan the flames of
today's incivility. And like most people, we'd prefer that he adopt a
more presidential tone.
But even if Trump had the temperament of Mister Rogers, Trump
derangement syndrome would be just as virulent and widespread as it is
today.
Not because of anything Trump has said or tweeted. But because he's
successfully enacting a conservative agenda that the left doesn't like,
and will do anything to stop. Anything, that is, except engage in a
calm, reasonable debate.
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/trump-hatred-left-incivility/
The question: What comes first?
California sinks into the ocean? An American Kosovo? 
