Don’t expect consistency when it comes to calls for political civility. When conservative activists go too far, calls for civility ensue. When leftists misbehave and act uncivilly, we don’t hear much about civility.

This is not surprising because most toxic incivility seems to come from the left. Many on the left seem to believe that you must be evil if your views on politics, culture, and society differ from theirs.

Take Barack Obama. He complaints trying to “build a conversation where people can disagree without hating each other.” Yet his “Democracy Forum” includes notorious antagonists on campus who sought to stifle voices with which they disagreed.

This is illustrated by a recent AP report on events on Mount Desert Island, in the small seaside town of Northeast Harbor, Maine.

According to the travel website Acadia Magic, Northeast Harbor is “famous as much for its summer residents as it is for its beautiful, protected harbor filled with exclusive yachts and sailboats.”

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Yet some Northeast Harbor residents are terribly mean to other Northeast Harbor residents. They are particularly unkind to Leonard Leo, a conservative organizer and philanthropist and former head of the Federalist Society. He is part of a movement that seeks to preserve what has made America a great nation and a land of opportunity for all who arrive on its shores.

It bothers the noisy uncivil leftists of Northeast Harbor that Leo has taken up residence in the town. For good measure, Leo has the nerve to become one of the island’s biggest supporters of charity, funding the local hospital, library, church and housing trust.

But for the leftists in Northeast Harbor, if you don’t agree with them, you shouldn’t be allowed to live in their neighborhood or attend their church. Your charitable donations that provide housing and medical care to the needy should be rejected. And even worse, you shouldn’t be able to enjoy the peace and quiet of your home.

Take the example of Caroline Pryor, a 65-year-old woman from Northeast Harbor. She participates in noisy and unpleasant demonstrations at Leonard Leo’s home. That’s right, his house. According to the P.A.:

They came armed with a life-size caricature puppet of Leo, a rainbow arch that runners could walk through, and blue and pink chalk with which they scrawled slogans – “You’re amazing, Leonard Leo won’t is not” – on the other side of the road. They rang bells while a boombox blasted Dolly Parton, Taylor Swift and Queen.

As the Associated Press reported, their “goal was ambitious: to convince Leo to leave.”

These same radicals also tried to convince the various organizations supported by Leo’s charitable donations to return his money. One resident, Susan Covino Buell, actually resigned from her position with the Island Housing Trust, a nonprofit organization that seeks “to increase the amount of affordable housing on the island,” simply because she accepted Leo’s donations.

While Buell believes that charities should consider the policies of their donors, does she also believe that when determining who they will help, charities should consider politics and refuse to help anyone who is not disagree with his opinions?

In America, we have a long tradition of residential courtesy. We are not kicking people out of their homes. Americans view residential life as a kind of commonwealth, where pluralism and civility reign, unlike the behavior displayed at Northeast Harbor.

Just don’t harass people at home, period. Or in their church, or in their business, or in their civic engagement.

American history obviously contains some unfortunate examples to the contrary. In 1912, in Forsyth County, Georgia, white residents attempted to hunt every black person down to the last one of the county, and they succeeded. The ramifications of this residential eviction campaign remained a contentious issue in Forsyth County well into the 1980s, perhaps because it was squarely at odds with the values ​​Americans place on residential civility.

Burning crosses were the tool to convince black people to move to the American South in another era. In Northeast Harbor they use puppets, bells and Girls with big bottoms at 120 decibels.

We should not seek to purge our neighbors because we hate them or disagree with their beliefs. This behavior has struck other countries and other times – from the horrors of the Balkans in the 1990s to modern conflicts between Armenians and Azeris.

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This is not to say that the bloodlust seen in these places is comparable to the villainy of Northeast Harbor. Obviously not. But it comes from the same nasty place, the desire to intimidate and scare your neighbors because you don’t agree with them because you don’t want them around anymore. The idea that those you disagree with on the Second Amendment or abortion should be removed from their homes and neighborhoods is a foreign concept in America.

“We can’t act like this is an ordinary person in our community,” says Susan Covino Buell, who seems to think that the legitimacy of charity depends on your policies. This is where it all begins: when someone is not an “ordinary person” who is entitled to courtesy and a peaceful existence at home. Or maybe in his church. Or maybe his children’s schools.

According to the venomous philosophy of Buell and his comrades, “The Other must go.”

We to have both written much the same behavior in Virginia toward Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. There, protesters harassed Alito and his family at his home, some wearing Handmaid’s Tale costumes.

But in Virginia, it’s a crime to protest in someone’s home: “In other words, civil society benefits from having homes focused on family, friends, and peace, not clowns in crime.” maid costumes. If you show up and protest a Supreme Court Justice near his home, you are committing a crime in Virginia.

Not only is it time to enforce such laws, but it is time for our society to reject these venomous incivilities that destroy domestic tranquility and condemn those who indulge in them. If you want to protest an important issue, do it in the town square, not where individuals and their families live and sleep.