MSNBC has been hemorrhaging audience share since election night, which isn't altogether surprising except - now that liberals and progressives are re-evaluating how their messaging should travel and be delivered, this may be a permanent dip. Well, it can't help that "Morning Joe" hosts Joe Scarborough and Mike Brzezinski shlepped to Mar-A-Lago to "kiss the ring" last weekend, and admitted as much on Monday morning. "Why wouldn't we?" Mike responds.

She then timelines this "political warfare" back a mere five years, and a couple of former US Senators gathered in Athens yesterday to wax nostalgic about their early 21st century tenures compared to today's divisiveness. They're all wrong, or seem to forget a few things that I, for one, did not.

Before going there, though, a little attention is warranted for current "mean girls" Nancy Mace and - sigh - Marjorie Taylor Greene, who've decided to pick a fight with incoming Delaware Congresswoman Sarah McBride over ... bathrooms. Because of course. How is the left to be civil with that?

Back to Athens, where former Senators Heidi Heitkamp and Saxby Chambliss sat for the Isakson Symposium on Political Civility at the University of Georgia yesterday. Never mind that Saxby ran a repulsive attack ad tying Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein to a decorated war veteran who'd lost three limbs in Vietnam. Max Cleland deserved better than to have been 'swiftboated.' Tell us, dear Saxby, how woeful political discourse is now vs. how much more civil things were when you were flinging mud, sir.