Michael Kinsley’s short oped “And Now For Some Good News” is one of the most uplifting things I’ve read in a while:

The overwhelming Democratic front‐​runner is a woman, yet all the questions that used to be raised about whether a woman could be president have disappeared…


The Democratic front-runner’s rival is a Jew, which also has not been an issue…


This election season has seen the president nominate a person who would be the fourth Jew (out of nine justices) on the Supreme Court. The other five seats are filled by Catholics. No fuss at all…


[O]ne of the remaining GOP candidates is Latino, as was another who recently dropped out of the race…[Ted] Cruz still could win the nomination. There was also a black candidate who did well with voters, but the fact that Ben Carson is African‐​American was simply not an issue…


Most encouraging of all, after an initial explosion of joy and self‐​congratulation, the fact that our president for the past eight years has been a black man has largely receded into the background.

I plan to return to Kinsley’s op‐​ed when this election inevitably stoops to yet another new low.