One feels reckless nurturing hopes for 2021. If John McCain were here, the late Republican senator from Arizona would no doubt say farewell to 2020 with one of his favorite lines: “It’s always darkest before it gets pitch black.” After the year the world has just endured, wouldn’t low expectations be more prudent? A year that began with a failed impeachment and ended with a failing soft coup. A year in which Depression-level unemployment coexisted uneasily alongside a booming stock market. When a virus fractured our daily routines and politics and — in one way or another — broke a lot of …
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