Election Night

Feeling good about America

I don’t do politics here, but I do follow it, especially in the run-up to Election Day. I still feel a sense of civic pride on these days, a sense that even if we’re voting for totally opposite people, we’re still at least standing in the line voting together.

I remember once, on a Washington, D.C. trip back in the mid-2000s, we saw three helicopters—one…