A bumpy road ahead

Here’s the good news: the primary election season is behind us. The bad news? We still have an eight-month presidential election ahead. I’m just kidding, of course. (Well, mostly.) Like many of you, I don’t particularly relish the next few months in terms of the presidential election, which is not just an all-but-certain rematch of the last one but seems likely to be even uglier. But as I noted in a column a couple of weeks ago, nasty politics may be the price we pay for having a functioning democracy rather than outright civil war.