<![CDATA[Civility used to be the hallmark of American politics, but those days are long gone. Years of the left finding new Hitlers in every Republican and bellowing about how “right-wing extremists” were nothing less than the greatest terror threat the nation faces have not had their intended effect, which was to discredit and destroy dissident voices entirely and ensure the left’s hegemony on an indefinite basis. The left’s demonization of all opposition, however, has had the effect of poisoning the public discourse to the extent that leftist perspectives the only ones that could be aired in public, and if you’re a dissident, you’re a marked man. One of those areas is none other than Washington, D.C. ]]>