The only chivalrous actions today are the ones which involve verbal shivs that the unvalorous contending candidates keep digging into their opponent's ribs.
Primaries; Can't Live With Them; Can't Live Without Them
As a kid growing up, I got a political education from my father who was a small town newspaper editor in Pennsylvania. I thought I knew all about the processes, twists and turns of the political jungle. How wrong I was! The world's wars in the years from the early '40s up through '70s caused me to leave them, and when those and my military service were completed, I found myself in New England.
Now quite a few years later after a few presidential primaries, what I had experienced those many years ago, were not quite the same. Usually processes similar to the primaries are pretty much the same as the years go by; but let me tell you--I don't remember any of the "shenanigans" we see today as ever happening way back then.