Every major city in the United States saw its stores and office buildings boarded up in anticipation of liberals rioting in mass about President Trump’s potential reelection. That didn’t happen, so, instead, we’re seeing some Trump supporters badgering state-level officials about voter fraud.

Purely in terms of safety and peace, our current reality is better than what could have happened, which is to say, the destruction of public monuments and private property at the hands of enraged Democratic voters. And yet, the New York Times’s liberal Michelle Goldberg wrote Monday, in earnest, that civility is a problem for Republicans.