The friction in our nation is not simply between right and left. What we face is a more fundamental shift of changing norms and wholly upended ambitions that can no longer coexist. Our current political moment reflects existential challenges coming to a head. And it is the progeny of twentieth-and twenty-first-century assaults on the role of government, the legitimacy of elections, and the intent of those elected to lead. But no matter who we elect as president, one person alone cannot fix what ails us or forestall what is to come. We will have to grapple with liberal ideals in real time, and
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