Priorities for leaders to focus on after election is over

In the 1973 Western classic “High Plains Drifter,” Clint Eastwood’s man-with-no-name character is asked by another what they are supposed to do after the citizens of the town of Lagos kill three cowboys they backstabbed after hiring them to protect the town.

“What about after?” Mordecai asks. “What about after we do it? What do we do then?”

“Then you live with it,” Eastwood replies.

With the 2016 election rapidly, and mercifully, coming to a close, those of us who vote will be faced with that same realization — whatever the outcome, we’ll have to live with it. But then, so also will the politi...