CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY NOVEMBER 24,2025
CIVILITY WAS ONCE THE NORM IN AMERICAN POLITICS. IT IS NOW SO RARE THAT WHEN IT SHOWS ITS FACE IT’S ALMOST LIKE A REVELATION.
THE NORM THESE DAYS CONSISTS OF ACCUSATIONS, ANGER, CURSING, LYING AND QUESTIONING ONE’S CHARACTER. DID YOU SEE THOSE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO CREATED A VIDEO TELLING MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY AND OTHERS IN THE CHAIN OF COMMAND TO DEFY PRESIDENT TRUMP’S “ILLEGAL” ORDERS? THEY DIDN’T SAY WHAT ILLEGAL ORDERS THEY MEANT. SOME ARE CALLING THEIR REMARKS: “SEDITION.”
CONTRAST THIS WITH REMARKS AND THE PRESENCE OF FORMER PRESIDENTS AND VICE PRESIDENTS AT DICK CHENEY’S FUNERAL LAST WEEK. FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH WAS A MODEL OF KINDNESS, HUMILITY, GRACE AND EVEN HUMOR AS HE REMEMBERED HIS VICE PRESIDENT. BUSH SPOKE OF CHENEY’S LACK OF AMBITION AND HIS LOYALTY TO HIM AND THE COUNTRY.
ONE CAN QUIBBLE ABOUT POLICY BUT NO ONE CAN SAY THAT CHENEY PUT HIMSELF OVER HIS PRESIDENT AND HIS COUNTRY. HUMILITY IS SOMETHING ONE RARELY SEES IN WASHINGTIN TODAY. IT WAS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR TO SEE IT ON DISPLAY AT THE CHENEY FUNERAL. I’M CAL THOMAS.
