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    Jackie Calmes: Fearing the worst, hoping for the best: My 2022 predictions for the nation

    by Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times Jan 03, 2022 3 minutes

    We can argue whether 2021 was “the least bad year of the last two years,” as “The Daily Show” claimed, considering that it began with a bloody insurrection at the Capitol and ended with U.S. COVID-19 deaths exceeding 820,000. Yet rather than debate the past, let’s look ahead to 2022 and what it could hold for the nation and its riven social fabric.

    I’m mostly pessimistic.

    A year ago I was among the 8 in 10 Americans who were optimistic about leaving godawful 2020 behind, only to be disappointed by 2021. Maybe the opposite

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