One Thing I’m Thankful For

I woke up this morning to the following headline:

It will be appealed. But did I ever think I’d read that headline in my lifetime?

I love this country because, for all its deep divisions and constant insanity, it moves forward, and not by sudden elite fiats, as in Western Europe, but by the long and winding road of debate, lawsuits, legislative action, court action and presidential nudging. This struggle isn’t over – and the debate should never be over – but what a long way we’ve come. Mississippi.