1. A short thread on a rainy end-of-April evening.
Tomorrow's May. According to poets and lyricists through the ages, things should start to look up. And pundits in 2020 share the sentiment: That first third of 2020 was rough. But we made it through. The skies will brighten.
Tomorrow's May. According to poets and lyricists through the ages, things should start to look up. And pundits in 2020 share the sentiment: That first third of 2020 was rough. But we made it through. The skies will brighten.
2. But will they? What if the first four months of 2020 turn out not to have been the worst third of the year, but the best? What if the pandemic not only doesn't go away but flares up again? What if the economy goes into something more like a depression than recession?
3. And what if Trump makes everything far, far worse--from self-defeating but audience-pleasing moves in foreign policy to attempts to win re-election that threaten the integrity of our democratic process, lead to real civil unrest, and even endanger a fair election in November?
4. I probably shouldn't have posted these first three tweets without having a reassuring path forward to suggest as the fourth! But I don't. I'd only say we Americans of recent decades have had it, in the big sweep of things, pretty easy. We now enter our time for testing.
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