Punching away after watching the Democrats debate in Las Vegas Trump tweeted Michael Bloomberg “was stumbling, bumbling and grossly incompetent” – punching back Bloomberg started putting up billboards around Trump’s rallies saying, “Donald Trump Eats Burnt Steak. Mike Bloomberg Likes His Medium Rare.”

George Washington said no to being crowned king. At the end of the Civil War Lincoln said, With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us bind up the nation’s wounds. Franklin Roosevelt led us to victory after Pearl Harbor. Reagan ended the Cold War. And, now, we have Trump tweeting Bloomberg’s a bumbler and Bloomberg saying he’ll be a better President than Trump because he doesn’t eat burnt steak.

The road we’re walking on has turned away from good old-fashioned manners and grace – and no one can see what’s waiting for us around the next bend.