There’s an apocryphal saying that is collectively known as the Chinese curse (but was actually probably made up right here in America) which states that to truly be cruel to your enemies you should say “may you live in interesting times.” The idea is that while interesting times are of course interesting in hindsight they are not fun to live through. I think it’s fair to say that we are in fact living in interesting times right now. The last 10 months would qualify, under any definition, as interesting times.
It is in the face of these interesting times that we find ourselves at another interesting time in our country.