Did you see any of the funeral of Congressman Elijah Cummings? I caught excerpts, including some moving and poetic speeches by folks I'd never heard of…and the two main attractions, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. I'm going to embed those two speeches below for anyone who wants to return to a day when leaders spoke with eloquence about values and things that always have and always will matter.
In events like this, your first thought is that politics should be forgotten…but politics were never forgotten for long during the life of Representative Cummings. And it's impossible to not compare the grace and selflessness of these two men, whatever their shortcomings, with you-know-who. Clinton's best line in there is "You can't run a free society if you have to hate everybody you disagree with."