Unlikely Wins, Implausible Losses, and a New Year Comes
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.” – Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities” Nothing truer could be said about the year 2016. The year 2016 will go down in history as one of the best and worst years of my life for a number of reasons. The triumph of Trump, the loss of Hillary, the epoch of the Chicago Cubs victory, the relevance of third parties, the march of liberty, the total reshaping of the two-major par...