And while it is easy to dwell on the Conways’ marriage here — even though they are the only ones who have any idea what the state of their relationship is — the point to be made is much larger.

A friend of mine who knows a lot about the swamp that is Washington summed it up best in an exasperated text: “If Trump is the excuse for everyone to behave badly, then we are never going to get back to a semblance of normal.”

No, we are not. The Conway show has much less to do with the two stars than where we have let ourselves go. In the words of Pogo, we have met the enemy and he is us.

Many people object to the idea that every one of us is to blame for the sorry state of civility, which has brought to new lows of awful by tech tools all invented right here in the U.S. of A.

I have spent a lot of time writing and talking about those whom I think carry a lot of the culpability — the tech companies and their leaders who reap all of the money and pay for almost none of the negative impact of the inventions they sowed; regulators who have turned a blind eye to doing anything about it; and, of course, Mr. Trump, whose digital persona (and his analog one, too) delights in cruelty, bathes in conspiracy, traffics in propaganda and lives in a narcissistic fun house that is decidedly unfun for far too many.

And let’s not leave out Russian bots and government agents who seek to create discord. Or the racist and misogynist hate-speechers who want to set back all of the painful progress we have made toward a more just world. Or the vicious autocrats who manipulate to keep their nasty grips on power.