46, only up from here

Well my main motivation was to get rid of the ugly ugly post from 4 years ago about the impending dumpster fire of the Trump presidency. We were hopeful that he wouldn't be what he was. And he turned out to be everything he said he would be, amplified, to its awful awful conclusion. Our democracy survived, barely. But it remains on life support. That was a battle, part of a bigger war on democracy in the US of A. President Biden won't fix it, he can't. No single person can. The fight continues every day to protect voting rights to put as much power into the hands of voters as possible. I'm hopeful but not yet optimistic. We've got a lot of work to do in this country. Let's get to it.