The idea that there's any objective way to measure "civility" over time seems silly. It's always necessarily a cobbling together of anecdotes. In 1975 the president was shot at twice in less than one month. Why wasn't 1975 the lowpoint of American civilityhttps://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1010918506534178818 …
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You're generally right, and
@hradzka's reviews of "Days of Rage" supports your point. But@NateSilver538 also has a point in that a) the political classes are less civil to each other than they've been since WW2, and b) ordinary non-extremist Americans are also.1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
I'm not sure how you justify the statement, "the political classes are less civil to each other than they've been since WW2" without relying on anecdote.
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