A holiday letter from the ‘other America’

There has been much talk throughout 2024 about the “two Americas.” On Nov. 5, these two Americas faced off in what many pundits – forgetting, say, the election of 1860 – called the “most divisive election in American history.”

This week I received your classic “holiday letter” from a long-time friend who resides in that other America, the one in which I don’t reside. Before parsing this remarkable letter from Mrs. X, a description of those two Americas might be in order.

Although...