Greetings and welcome to this first 2025 edition of the Carnival of Fools! If you’re new around these parts, then congratulations: You came just in time for a funeral. Yes, today we’re finally laying the miserable, dusty bones of the Year 2024 to rest in the shabby pauper’s grave it deserves. We ended part 1 of this year in review the moment before everything that had taken place in the presidential race to that point was simply deleted from national relevance: the June 27 presidential debate. You can find my take on that in a piece published over the weekend. Consider it part 1.5 of the Year in Review, the Dry and Thematically Important Essay portion of the proceedings.
Now here we are. The end of the Biden era signals a radical shift in the tone of our politics. From the anticipated weirdness of a rerun of 2020, to the revealed incompetence of Biden, to the insertion of Kamala ...
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