Actor Michael Urie’s character, Brian, the gay best friend of lead Jason Segel in the Apple TV hit “Shrinking,” has a catch phrase that’s caught me in a days-long pondering of Gov. Kim Reynolds, her remarkable ascendency and defining of Iowa, a mark-making perhaps more permanent than anything shepherded by any Hawkeye State leader in history, in her vis…
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