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After a Year of Tears, Better Days to Come

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 12/31/20

To paraphrase Charles Dickens, it was the worst of years, it was the worst of Presidents to get us through 2020.

Anyone who knew of Donald Trump's career aside from his one conspicuous success—acting like a titan of industry on a reality-TV showcouldn't have been altogether surprised that when he got a sense of how rough the coronavirus pandemic might be, his primary thought was that he couldn't let it interfere with a thriving economy he expected would carry him to a second term.

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