Looking back at the 2020s from our vantage point in 2030, the first great event was the complete destruction of Donald Trump’s Republican Party. Trump’s landslide defeat left him humiliated, and the Republicans lost their Senate majority. Many temporarily retreated from political life, the way evangelical Christians did after the ignominy of the Scopes trial. The political power was with moderates. As president, Biden resisted the interest groups that wanted him to address health care first.

Source: New York Times January 02, 2020 23:37 UTC