An important mission

 

I don't know about you, but I found yesterday to be kind of exhausting.

Yeah, I loved voting in the morning-- I always do. For the first time ever, I saw people waiting in a long line at my polling place. But wait they did, as they did all over the country. That was the best part of the day.

In Minnesota, we will have Tim Walz back here as full-time governor. And, in this new era, that will be a very important job. Here's why:

It's common to say we are becoming "two nations," referring to blue and red states, and there is some truth to that. But the deeper truth is that each state is becoming, in a way, its own nation. Red states are different than one another, and the same is true of blue states: Oklahoma is not the same as Indiana; Minnesota is not California. Texas is putting up its own border controls. My own state is an island surrounded by red-- we might as well be our own country, one that people flee to if they need an abortion. 

To get through the coming years, a governor like Walz will be more like a president-- he will be leading a government that is largely cut off from the federal government both in culture and practice. 

Are we ready for that?