Krautie writes:

"It takes decades, centuries, to develop ingrained norms of political restraint and self-control. But they can be undone in short order by a demagogue feeding a vengeful populism."

It is the Republican Party that has destroyed our political norms, by total obstructionism, shutting down the government, abusing the filibuster, refusing to fill court vacancies, winking at birtherism, and nominating Trump.

You reap what you sow.