Commentary There are some preliminary encouraging signs that the flood of polarizing events and attitudes in American politics is starting to descend slightly from the top of the breakwater. The situation has become precarious because where fewer than 45,000 votes in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin could have flipped the election in the Electoral College to President Trump, and all of those states engaged in a number of revisions of methods of vote counting, supposedly to accommodate the complexities of voting during the pandemic, and the fundamental issues were never adjudicated. This situation has widely incited the inference that the result was not an honest one. In keeping with his frequent tendency of aggravating difficult situations with intemperate and unrigorous comments, the former president declared that he won the popular vote. He obviously did not but it is quite likely that as in 2016, if improperly harvested or otherwise miscast ballots …