With much of the Democratic Party going nuts, former first lady Michelle Obama is sticking by her “when they go low, we go high” advice. Thank you, ma’am.
Her husband’s attorney general, Eric Holder, on Sunday begged to differ with what “Michelle always says,” telling a Georgia crowd, “No. No. When they go low, we kick them.”
Of course, Holder’s one of the 200 or so Democrats eyeing a 2020 presidential run and eagerly courting the party’s most rabid elements. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton isn’t running (please!), yet she now insists that “civility” is only for after Democrats “win back the House and/or the Senate.”
So it’s beyond wonderful that Obama told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie on Thursday that she “absolutely” stands by her slogan.
As she explained: “If you think about how you want your kids to be raised, how you want them to think about life and their opportunities, do you want them afraid of their neighbors? Do you want them angry? Do you want them vengeful?”
No, Obama added, “we want them to grow up with promise and hope.” More: “We can’t model something different if we want them to be better than that.”
It’s a message worth heeding across the spectrum: Treat everyone who disagrees with you as a mortal enemy and you risk making them into just that — while also distorting your life and those around you. It’s madness.