If Republicans and Democrats agree on one thing, it's that President Donald Trump has thrown the notion of political correctness out of the window. The 2018 Midterms saw several candidates (Tennessee's Marsha Blackburn, for one) cast themselves as politically incorrect, which raises a question about what that is supposed to mean to voters. That the candidate tells it like it is? That he or she offends people intentionally?
The week following the Midterms saw no respite from news of people throwing caution aside while out in public. There was the man who got fired for wearing a racist t-shirt to a polling place, the political candidate who joked about public hangings, the governor who wondered why black people would complain about hangings and not about legal abortions, the Memphis state representative who called her entire state racist, the C.O.G.I.C. leader using a gay slur.
For political analyst Otis Sanford, it's time that We the People start demanding better behavior, locally at least, because, he says, there are slim chances of trickle-down civility from Washington anytime soon.
