Let me say something else that will offend precisely the readers it needs to: If Donald Trump is the reason you want to renounce America, then Donald Trump didn’t break you—your worldview did. America was never meant to be our Messiah. It was never meant to guarantee emotional tranquility. It was meant to guarantee freedom. And freedom requires durability. Faithfulness. Courage. Even a willingness to be uncomfortable for long stretches of time.

And so I offer a gentle reminder to the wanderers: The only place on earth where you are guaranteed the right to speak, to worship, to build, to disagree, to raise your children as you see fit—the only place where you are free to love this country or criticize it loudly—is the very country you’re trying to escape.

You don’t flee from a nation like that. You steward it. You argue for it. You fight for it. And you thank God you were born in it. Even in election years. Especially in election years.