Here’s the splendid Jay Nordlinger making the case with examples supplied by his readers. Sum it up with this:  Please never depend for your well-being on the election returns. Politics must never be that important, at least in a liberal democracy. Look, I don’t dislike politics. I am having a career as a political journalist. I like politics a lot, always have (since childhood). But I also like it in its place, which is not unlimited. And the spilling out of politics where it does not belong sours life.

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