In many respects, 2020 was not a good year in the United States, or Massachusetts for that matter.
The coronavirus has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. Government responses to the pandemic have killed jobs and permanently shuttered businesses. Liberal and progressive Democrats swept the Congressional races and maintained their supermajority in the Massachusetts State House; those lefties even passed the ROE Act.
Extended vote-counting, protracted litigation, and President Donald Trump's reluctance to concede the 2020 presidential election have held the Republican Party back from the usual work of losers in a national election, which is self-examination.
Part of this may be the result of the better-than-expected showing of Republicans in races for Congress and state legislatures. Part of it may be a desire to wait for the outcome of the January Georgia runoffs that will determine control of the Senate. Republicans are caught in between, unsure whether to pat themselves on the back for holding on to Congress or flagellate themselves for failing to hold the White House.
