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Jonah Goldberg: De-emphasizing politics may be the best way to mend fences

The day before Election Day, Reuters ran a story about the personal toll politics has taken on some peoples’ lives.

Mayra Gomez told her 21-year-old son she’d be voting for Trump. He essentially disowned his own mother in response. Gomez says he told her: “You are no longer my mother.”

Gayle McCormick, a 77-year-old woman, left her husband because he voted for Trump.

Whenever I read or hear about such things, my first instinct is to wonder whether

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