SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California's most accomplished senator, became an anachronism. She practiced civility and compromised with the other side.
That's how the state's first female senator has gotten so many important things done in an increasingly antagonistic political world.
It's the way major legislation used to be passed before social media and cable "news" provided wide-ranging platforms for demagogues and nurtured the ideological extremes on both sides.
