For a few hours Tuesday, America appeared to accomplish the nearly impossible: agree on something. Dolly Parton was beloved. And no one (still) has had a bad thing to say about Dolly herself – because there is nothing bad to say about her.

Following the country music legend’s death at 80, tributes poured in from virtually every corner of American culture. Singers, actors, presidents, libraries, animal rescues and ordinary fans shared photographs and personal stories. Shania Twain, Randy Travis, Kelly Clarkson and countless others remembered her. So did NASA, the Smithsonian, Library of Congress, Turner Classic Movies and even Snoopy.

The political left joined in, too – although some couldn’t resist adding their politics to the rhinestones.

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Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed remembered Parton as something of a champion for the voters he hopes to win over.

“Dolly Parton used her gift for music to highlight the challenges of poverty, inequality and struggle in a way that uplifted and inspired working people,” El-Sayed said.

Then came Occupy Democrats, which used Parton’s death to accuse Republicans of gutting funding for her beloved Imagination Library.

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Other anti-Trump reactions skipped the policy debate entirely and went straight to their TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), where everything that happens is Trump’s fault – or at the very least Trump- adjacent.

One particularly charming sentiment making the rounds read: “Lord, we said Donald, not Dolly.”

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Meanwhile, Trump himself praised Parton as one of the greatest country singers ever and ordered American flags lowered to half-staff through Sept. 1 – including at the White House, federal buildings, military installations and U.S. facilities abroad.

For most of the country, though, politics seemed secondary. People remembered Dolly the way she spent decades giving them reasons to remember her: through songs, movies, laughter, kindness, books for children and countless stories about encounters with a superstar who somehow made ordinary people feel like the important ones. It was a rare moment of shared affection and gratitude – except, of course, for the far-left corners of the political universe that simply couldn’t resist turning even Dolly Parton’s death into another partisan food fight. No big surprise there.