A post-election commentary. Nov. 5 has come and gone, and now an extremely polarized citizenry has the difficult task of re-unifying the country around not a president, but the founding ideals that have bolstered the American democracy for more than 230 years. This election year was unprecedented: two assassination attempts on a party nominee and former president, the running of the two oldest men in presidential election history, the dropping out of the sitting president from his reelection campaign and the abrupt ascension of the first black female presidential candidate with 100-some-odd days to either introduce herself to the nation and/or differentiate herself from a wildly unpopular administration…