Arizona's GOP governor congratulates Hobbs on victory as Lake refuses to concede

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23. Points taken, however, it's necessary to see just how the informality......

of good manners was, in general society, formalized in practice. Often, what we see as simply good manners, socially graceful means to interact, was enforced by violence. I give you: whippings behind the coal house, tarring and feathering, banishment, run out of town on a rail, the ever popular "duel", etc. Fear of enforcement was enough to discourage most "honorable" people away from trespass. Everyone had their own personal experiences to know with certainty what "raised right" meant.

The truth is that the founders could not imagine a world where good manners and respect for the forms of society and governance could be ignored and tossed aside without some form of popular, inescapable enforcement. Our "kinder and gentler" approach to a perfect society has let loose the hounds of depravity whose current iteration is Trumpism.