There's a scene in a season six episode of Mad Men (I was too lazy to look it up) when Don is watching the news on TV and its awful and horrible and he just shuts it off and curls into a ball, basically shutting out the world. That is how the last few days have felt and believe me, I understand sitting in a nice home in the New Jersey suburbs with a work-from-home job I am in no position to complain. BUT, as every reporter has now pointed out, 2020 is a combination of the 1918 Spanish Flu, the 1929 Great Depression, and the 1968 riots all wrapped into one. It is not a great time to be an American and there is no guarantee this has a happy ending. Trump could very easily be reelected and we could be dealing with four more years of his Mad King routine. I think that is the one thing lost on us. We are Americans, we always figure it out is just the working assumption, but what if this time *is* different? What if we *do not* figure it out? What if things do get worse not better. Every Republican Administration since Reagan has left a successfully worse country behind than the one they found, but this hole is exponentially worse - the coronavirus death toll, the new multi-trillion dollar budget deficit, and of course, the continued stain of racism that (shocker) did not magically go away just because Barack Obama was elected President. Dark times, folks.
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