"Stop lying about my record!"

Remember when Bob Dole scolded George HW Bush - and the criticism it evoked from the media?

Somehow he had crossed the line of civility in a presidential campaign? You simply did not call your opponent a "liar". That was out of bounds.

Then along came Trump and he started calling everyone names. There was "Lyin' Ted Cruz", for example. Civility, if there was any left, died with the campaign of Donald J. Trump.

With Trump, there was no such thing as civility. America accepted the rude, crude, hurtful, and dangerous remarks of the Republican candidate as a new norm.

It is sad to see America so deeply stuck in the muck.