Democrats overwhelmingly view themselves as the party of civility, according to a poll released Wednesday.

And the kicker is that a plurality of voters, overall, agree.

The Morning Consult/Politico poll, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points, suggests that 49 percent of registered voters believe the word “civil” describes Democrats “very well” or “somewhat well.” That contrasts with 39 percent who think the word describes Democrats “not too well” or “not well at all.”

Meanwhile, only 43 percent of voters believe Republicans are civil, while 43 percent think they are not.

Those results may be perplexing to anyone who has paid even half-hearted attention to the national debate since President Donald Trump took office. It has involved nearly unprecedented levels of hostility directed at Republican office holders and protesters banging on the doors of the Supreme Court.

Mobs of demonstrators have harassed Republicans eating meals, including White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

Other senators have found themselves cornered in elevators.

Those are just a few of the incidents in the age of Trump.

“A whopping 72 percent of Democrats viewed Republicans as uncivil. But nearly half of independents — 48 percent — and for some reason, 15 percent of Republicans, agreed.”

Some prominent Democrats have excused the behavior. Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) called repeated outbursts at Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing the “noise of democracy.”

Other Democratic leaders have egged on the protesters. Former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said explicitly in an interview that there can be “no civility” until Democrats return to power.

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Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has urged supporters to confront Republican office holders wherever they may see them.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) told protesters in July to “get up in the face of some congresspeople.”

Campus Reform reported Tuesday that a University of Mississippi professor, on the day of Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote, expressed his opinion that harassment of Republicans in restaurants had not gone far enough.

“Don’t just interrupt a senator’s meal, y’all,” tweeted James Thomas, who teaches sociology. “Put your whole damn fingers in their salads. Take their apps [appetizers] and distribute them to the other diners. Bring boxes and take their food home with you on the way out. They don’t deserve your civility.”

Younger voters were the least likely to view Democrats as uncivil. Just 30 percent of voters younger than 30 thought so.

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Democrats, not surprisingly, viewed their own party as civil — 82 percent thought so, according to the poll. But 46 percent of independents and even 18 percent of Republicans agreed.

A whopping 72 percent of Democrats viewed Republicans as uncivil. But nearly half of independents — 48 percent — and for some reason, 15 percent of Republicans, agreed.

Looking ahead to the midterm elections, now less than three weeks away, voters were evenly split — 40 percent to 40 percent — on the question of which party they believe will win a majority in the House of Representatives.

But voters favored Democrats over Republicans 44 percent to 37 percent on the question of which party they plan to support in congressional races next month. That 7-point gap is in line with other polls on the so-called generic ballot question. The current RealClearPolitics average has Democrats up by 7.2 points.

The exception is Rasmussen Reports, which has both parties at 45 percent.