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After the election: Make up or break up?

Two Opinion Exchange contributors make their respective cases.

November 20, 2016 at 2:13AM

Illustration by Kim Maxwell Vu, Star Tribune. Source images: Associated Press. (David Banks — Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

• Peter Leschak argues that a smooth transition is one of the prinicipal aims of our Constitution, but that President-elect Donald Trump must help us heal.

• Paul John Scott writes that he's dropping social connections with anyone who voted for Trump, because there has to be accountability for the choices people make.

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