6 New Year’s Resolutions for All of Us in the Age of Trump

“We can’t agree on anything.” “America has become two countries.” “We’re more divided than ever before.”

This narrative has fueled conversations between Americans of every stripe from houses of faith to factory floors, hospital waiting rooms to Walmart parking lots, police stations to college dorms, and just about any place two people can come together. And it’s not entirely wrong.

There is no escaping how much the Trump era, regardless of political affinity, has been defined by nastiness: slurring one’s…