Quote of the Day (Peter Wehner, on ‘When Civility is Stripped Away’)

“When civility is stripped away, everything in life becomes a battlefield, an arena for conflict, an excuse for invective. Families, communities, our conversations and our institutions break apart when basic civility is absent.”— Peter Wehner, American writer and former speechwriter for the administrations of three Republican U.S. presidents, in The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump (2019)