“If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.”

– Will Rogers

America has reached a new milestone. It was an easy mark to miss, as the rumble and roar of “coronavirus!” virtually drowned out everything else. But it was a genuine milestone, nonetheless.

The Trump administration announced stimulus packages for businesses injured by the economic shutdown caused by the spread of COVID-19. It’s nothing new to find American businesses, whole industries in fact, lining up for government aid after a natural disaster injures the country. What was different this time? What changed was who was allowed in that line. This time, gambling businesses could stand with other American businesses, to get financial help dealing with the losses of the coronavirus lockdown. In former times, gambling establishments, those dens of sin and temptation, would have been left to stand or fall by themselves.