“Remember those videos that used to be all over the internet, with members of the Korean congress punching each other in the face on the floor of the legislature? Man, we used to laugh. Now in the future that can be us.”
“Speaker Nancy Pelosi .. making faces, muttering, shaking her head as the president delivered his State of the Union address. At the end she famously stood, tore the speech up and threw down the pieces.”
Peggy Noonan writes on destruction of manners in American Policy in this weeks Opinion section of Wall Street Journal:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-democrats-unserious-week-11581032929
“The classy lady was not classy. She forgot she has a higher responsibility than to her base, but—yes, how corny—to her country, the institution, the young who are watching and just getting a sense of how to behave in the world.‘