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2024
A year that will go down in history
I don’t remember ever dreading a new year. If I ever did, I don’t think I dreaded it nearly as much as I have been dreading 2024.
I think I started dreading this year on January 6, 2021. I watched on live TV a crowd go from a Trump rally to break through barriers, fight with security guards, break windows and smash in doors to storm the Capital Building, where Congress was certifying the Electoral College votes. Who even knew that Congress did that? I’d never heard of it before. There was no reason to have ever heard of it before.
We heard on live TV people shouting, “Hang Mike Pence!” and saw them actually build a scaffold with a rope hanging from it. I’ve never cared for Mike Pence, but I owe him one for not leaving the building that day, even as some Secret Service guards tried to push him into a car.
I knew that Trump wasn’t happy about losing the election and was yelling “Voting Fraud” and going to court, but after he lost case after case, I thought it would go away.
It hasn’t gone away in three years, and talk of what would happen in 2024 started early in 2021. So for three years, we’ve been focused on what might happen this year, and I am so tired, I kind of wished I could wake up January 1 and find I was in 2025 — just skip 2024. Just tell me how it turned out…
