After the election, our toxic politics will endure
Mike Pence and Paul Ryan at RNC (Photo: Screen capture)

Like all traumatic events eventually do, the U.S. presidential campaign will end. Polling places will close, votes will be tabulated and a new electoral map will be drawn up that shows how our 45th president-elect got elected. Unfortunately, the stink of this campaign season will stick around much, much longer. The vitriol has been too corrosive.…