I have felt, since the early 1990s, the principal reason we have so much overt, visceral . . . . .

[AnotherMcIntosh]

41. OP: "No other man has done more to raise the temperature and lower the collegiality" than Gingrich.

Should no credit for the lowering of collegiality, or at least should no credit for the lowering of collegiality between elected members of the politicial parties, be given to Nixon?

From you experience of being a history fan, for the time periods prior to Nixon after Presidents were elected and campaign seasons ended, do you have any examples of where the the lack of collegiality between elected politicians continued on a wholesale basis after a Presidential election was over? Do you have one example?

Can you point to events following LBJ's election and prior to the following campaign season in which there was an absence of collegiality between elected members of the two politicial parties?

Or to events following JFK's election and prior to the following campaign season?

Or Eisenhower's? Or Truman's? Or FDR's?

For those who lived during the times of FDR's, Truman's, Eisenhower's, JFK's, and LBJ's Administrations, they know that the level of animosity between elected officials during the times between campaign seasons did not exist during those time periods. The atmosphere was entirely different that what it is at the present time.

And your response, which seems to be less than collegial, is: "That's a load of hogwash." and "... the idea that campaigns "ended" before Nixon is laughable beyond description."?

So, instead of choosing to have either a collegial discussion or at least a neutral one, you chose those words.

One of the best things that Skinner ever did for this site was to add the "ignore" feature. I'm going to choose to use it right now. Good luck to you.