We Need More Incivility in Our Presidential Campaigns

Living through this interminable presidential campaign has been tough on everyone. From the candidates, anxious to avoid the tiniest mistake, to reporters, condemned to invent drama out of squiggles in the polling data, to voters, numbed into turning out in shrinking numbers -- we're all relieved that the end is in sight.

A look at the recent televised debates helps explain what's wrong. We Americans have become our own worst enemy, too often acquiescing in a false civility that

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