2016 Postmortem

The vote will mark the convergence of two historic opportunities for Michigan voters, and America.

The first is the chance to shatter a bigoted gender barrier that dates to the nation’s founding by electing a woman — a woman who happens to be one of the best-prepared candidates to seek the presidency in the last century.

Clinton’s America is a mature, self-confident nation that leads by example in a world bound ever more tightly by its inhabitants’ common economic and environmental interests.

Clinton’s America draws strength and stability from its diversity; Trump’s stews in racial, ethnic and religious resentments, romanticizing a vanished America in which white men reigned supreme and everyone else — women, blacks, Hispanics, Muslims — competed for their favor.