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The case against her was threadbare, a product of postwar rancor, false testimony and manipulative journalists who had preyed on her naivete.

Now he views the world and the people around him with “much more compassion and understanding. I have no more time for rancor and bitterness — they’re like a cancer.”

But in the past 10 years, ever since the right to gay marriage was secured in 2015, further divisions have emerged and expanded, along with growing rancor and vitriol.

Above all, as hard as it would have been to believe in 2018, partisan rancor has gotten far worse, with both sides hungrier than ever to score political points.

Many of her insights are astute, though occasionally tinged with rancor.