Paul Brandus: A terrible 2020 is ending with reasons for optimism
One of the worst years in American history is winding down — and good riddance. More than a quarter-million Americans dead in a pandemic. Large swaths of the economy crushed. Lives shattered, dreams destroyed. Our politics has left us more divided, I think, than at any time since the Civil War. Gun violence has soared this year, while poverty and hunger are increasing. Seventy-one percent of Americans, says a Gallup survey, are “dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States at this time.” There’s no sugar coating the fact that we have big problems.
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