Not to sound condescending, but this reads like someone who started reading the news last week. It has absolutely always been that way. We had segregationists i

Not to sound condescending, but this reads like someone who started reading the news last week. It has absolutely always been that way. We had segregationists in the Senate 20 years ago. Backbiting and media hijinks are the thing we do now instead of assassinations. When Al Smith was the first Catholic to be nominated by a major party for the presidency, he was greeted in the south by burning crosses. This was less than 100 years ago https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/nyregion/gop-path-recalls-democrats-convention-disaster-in-1924.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/nyregion/gop-path-recalls...