You can say a lot of bad things about the 2024 presidential campaign, which mercifully ends today. There was only one presidential debate between the two candidates; there was very little attention paid to policy; the campaign rhetoric, especially on the part of Donald Trump, was the most divisive ever heard from any presidential candidate.

It was, in many ways, a campaign to be ashamed of. But you must admit, there was one thing good about it: Campaign 2024 was remarkably brief. Originally, it looked like it was going to be a lot longer. Donald Trump, who never really stopped running for president — and now says he never should have left the White House in 2021 — announced for reelection on Nov. 15, 2022. It set up an ungodly two-year presidential campaign. President Biden officially joined the race in April 2023.

But the real campaign — the one we’re........

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