The Cost of Civility

At Representative Elijah Cummings’ funeral, pallbearer Bobby Rankin walked past Mitch McConnell, refusing to shake his hand. It was another case of what the right likes to describe as the lack of civility from the left.

To them, that’s the reason we’re so divisive. Those darned lefties can’t put aside their political differences long enough to have a civil conversation or even shake the hand of a fellow mourner at a funeral.

But the undaunted McConnell showed how it was supposed to be done, according to the New York Post.

But McConnell quickly got over the snub, and headed to the podium to laud Cummings, a staunch supporter of the impeachment probe of President Trump who nevertheless was beloved by politicians across the political spectrum.

See how nonpartisan and civil McConnell was, in spite of the political pettiness of that pallbearer, who dishonored the name and memory of Cummings? It makes for a neat package, as long as you ignore everything else that has ever happened.

Ignore, for instance, that McConnell is the most partisan and divisive Senate Majority Leader in modern history who once even filibustered his own bill just so it wouldn’t get passed under Obama.

Ignore that McConnell used the 2016 nomination of a Supreme Court justice to say the “voters should decide” who…