This is the final column in a four-part series in the Washington Examiner by Carly Fiorina. This series focuses on what citizens can do to impact the political culture, their role in leading our citizen government, and ends with how to approach the 2018 midterm elections. You can read the third column here.

Democrats say President Trump has brought our political discourse to a new low. They are right. Republicans will say Democrats began the cycle of personal insults (John McCain was “racist,” Mitt Romney was “misogynist,” and Republicans were going to put “y’all back in chains”). Republicans are also right. And as we approach the midterm elections, we are bombarded hourly by countless examples of just how mean and personal our politics has become. If politics is sport, that sport is now a cage match. There is no blow too low and the only thing that counts is winning. As insults and charges are hurled back and forth, what’s a citizen to do?