Steve Stromberg

I was in Los Angeles in an inner-city, very diverse high school, and we were required to do a genealogy project.

And we had folks from anywhere in the world you can think of, and this is their story about how they came to the United States.

And it was all prefaced by my U.S.

history teacher pointing out that

You know, he was a man of Chinese origin whose daughter is, in fact, a candidate to be in the Daughters of the American Revolution, right?

And only in America can this happen.

And this is a very positive way to think about America's increasing diversity and the image of these communities that you paint.

Of course, it's also the image that Donald Trump has successfully demonized.

Well, and I want to dig into that a little bit more because you ended your last column on a hopeful note.

Keep recording DHS's activities, you say.

You do call for comprehensive immigration reform.

This is the sort of thing that before Trump, Democrats and Republicans had both previously supported.

It was the sort of thing that seemed only a matter of time.

And I sort of read into this a faith in democracy's ability to self-correct.

Am I reading you correctly?

Is there a hopeful horizon that you're seeing sort of just maybe a few elections down the road or only one?

Tom, thanks so much for your time.