Attacks on me had escalated dramatically now that I was working for a female candidate. In this campaign it was as if whatever constraints that had kept people from expressing the worst aspects of their characters had been lifted, and now they were free to take to social media to humiliate, degrade, and harass with no shame, no feeling that this is not what one does in a polite society. Were we no longer civil? Had this campaign unleashed something dire and dark within us? I feared for the country, and I feared that this was no longer a fair fight.
