By John Young

When he said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” Martin Luther King Jr. was as serious about patience as he was about persistence.

Patience: a hefty ask in a tormented year like 1968. But at least the word “wait” was in our vocabulary then. We don’t do that in 2022.

Today every calculation is instant and uses zero-sum math.

By that math, the House’s advancing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, to be stopp...