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Commentary: How to be an uncivil Trump resister without leading a vigilante mob

These historic times of populist upheaval are forcing Americans to wrestle with moral questions heretofore unconsidered, such as: If I see a member of the presidential administration in public, how much of a jerk should I be? If Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is sitting next to me in first class on an intercontinental flight, should I offer him a stick of gum, then yank it away, screaming, "No gum for pollution abettors!"? If I'm in front of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a Starbucks, do I order a venti half and half with 10

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