Don't let the made-for-Fox News spectacle of the Minnesota Occupation distract you. The most important lesson the rest of us can learn from that state's wide and deeply spread resistance is that Minnesotans' solidarity didn't just spring up when Trump's goons came to town. It was forged in nature's annual frigid grip and a bit of isolation; these connections are not the welcome-if-tenuous threads formed during a singular crisis, they're the carbon-steel fibers wound together by generations of consistent, need-blind aid to anyone that happens to be close by.
