If a week ago we were characterized by indecision, today we're the kid waving his hand with the answer. Not that all commentary has been brilliant. So we still have a little homework to do. Meanwhile, despite the Third World feel to the election at times, a crisis this is not. Yes, we're politically polarized, but we've had worse crises.
Assassinations come to mind.
As do questions of executive privilege during the Nixon era. By comparison, this is a national holiday, as well as affirming evidence that our government process, though imperfect, works and sustains the grandest human experiment in modern history. The United States, for all its flaws and idiosyncrasies, is hard at work doing the nearly impossible, keeping the melting pot at a manageable simmer while the rest of the world chuckles smugly at our inadequacies. In the scheme of things, this is a slip on the banana peel. Let them laugh while the big dog eats.