“You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about,” Hillary Clinton told CNN on Tuesday. Her words cannot be taken literally, for you can be civil if you want to; they’re a statement that she doesn’t want to.

That’s the bad news; the good news is that she lays out the terms and conditions under which civility will be appropriate again. “If we are fortunate enough to win back the House and/or the Senate,” she went on, “that’s when civility can start again.”