Finally, a return to civility by those on the left

While George W. Bush was President, it was commonplace for some on the left to use harsh rhetoric in their criticism of the President and his administration. But now, as Victor Davis Hanson reports in National Review Online, there is a new civility emerging on the left, as they now demand a cessation of critical opposition to President Obama's policies:

At last there is a return to civility. If we were confused in recent years as to whether “hate” was a permissible word in public discourse — as in the outburst of Democratic national chairman Howard Dean, “I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for,” or the infamous essay by The New Republic’s Jonathan Chait that began, “I hate President George W. Bush” — we now accept that such extreme language in the public arena is not merely uncivil, but is an incitement to real violence. The use of the word “hate” at last has become “hate speech.”