Election 2016: Democracy in Disarray: A Campaign Bloated with Bombastry, Bigotry, and Blatant Lies

When people look back at the 2016 Election, they will use many words to describe it. Among them will not be “decorous,” “thoughtful,” “reasoned,” and “civil.”
The campaign, at times, has seemed as if it was waged in an alternate cartoon universe.
It’s hard to imagine Dwight Eisenhower or Abraham Lincoln boasting in a public forum about the size of their genitals. We have had a candidate being labeled “Lucifer in the Flesh” and the love child of Joe McCarthy and Dracula. And an ultra­conserv...