I bend the knee to Joe the Dragon Slayer. While I thought it was shameful the way Democratic establishmentarianism resulted in hardly anybody’s first choice becoming the presumptive nominee, there was only one mission for our candidate to accomplish, and his success is toward the top of the list of things for which I will be giving thanks later this month.
Like so many at 10th and Piedmont, or in Paris and India, I rejoiced when the oppressive aura of the past four years was broken apart by hope, decency and a surge of mail-in ballots.
However, it took only a few days for leading Democratic politicians and pundits to insist the election results were not an automatic victory for LGBTQ folks, African Americans, immigrants or any of the other