Congratulations to Alysa Liu for winning a gold medal in the women’s individual figure skating. It was the first time in a long time it felt like watching figure skating wasn’t just waiting around for a catastrophe, but was actually fun to watch. And she did it her own way, with her own style. Superb job.

That said, it’s also worth noting her background, given the political climate: she is the daughter of an asylum seeker, who had to flee China in 1990. It’s hard to think about what would have happened to him, had he applied for asylum more recently, and had to appeal to the Trump administration.

We are better with her.