The Tribune has run two stories recently featuring Republicans lamenting the loss of civility in public life: a largely positive piece about Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox’s talk at UVU, where he criticized extremist political language; and an AP report simply mouthing liberal criticism of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch’s comments at a luncheon for the Fund for American Studies in Washington, D.C.
While Gorsuch echoed Cox when he encouraged citizens to “remember that democracy depends on our ability to reason and work with those who hold very different views than our own,” the focus of the AP article was on Gorsuch’s sin of having the temerity to speak at a hotel owned by President Trump.