It is the busiest travel day of the year.

Tens of millions of Americans are on the move on this Thanksgiving Eve 24, 54, 54 days before a change in presidential power.

Donald Trump has been handed something called immunity by the Supreme Court.

In simple language, it means functionally, he is above the law. For the first time,

America has a king or a Caesar. We have elevated someone who is one of us above us. It's a

dangerous precedent and one that should be reset at the first opportunity.

This is the warning.

What is our national purpose?

Has there ever been one?

Should there even be one?

Is it possible to even have one in a country so geographically large,

so populated, so diverse, made up of all of the people from all over the world where every language is commonly spoken every day. One of the things that was talked about

in this campaign over and over again as a plea, not really a statement of fact anymore by

Kamala Harris, though I believe it to be true,

is that, in fact, even in these divided times,

we share much more in common than we do in disagreement.

This boiling question, if we should separate or be together,

has long roiled the American conversation.

It is not possible to comprehend America without appreciating that 158 years ago there was a civil

war in a nation of 34 million people that almost killed one million people.

The question that has always hung in the air during America's darkest days and nights is

a combination of, will we make it through and what comes next?

...