So I had the honor (and I mean that, big fan) of having Kurt Eichenwald respond to me on Twitter today.
Kurt was upset that the idea of America he thought he understood is gone.
It isn’t gone. It just needs to be fought for.
NOTHING in America came because we are innately special. It came because good people fought for what they believed was right, often at great risk.
We are not divine. We are human.
The history of America is ugly. We had a few decent decades of progress but the ugly is back in force.
What makes America great is that it rises up against the ugly.
It isn’t pretty. It has never been pretty.
People will die. People have died. Generation after generation.
And yet, still, over centuries, we rise.
Because we are Americans.
That is just the way it is.
Rise.