21 Paragraphs About 2021
Can 2022 be even better?
by Daniel J. Flynn
December 30, 2021, 11:05 PM
As the commissioned pitchman for the year almost past, I find “2021, even better than 2020” as the most captivating slogan for my client not in violation of hangups over truth in advertising.
The Oxford English Dictionary named “vax” and Merriam-Webster “vaccine” as the word of the year. In defining “allyship” as the word of the year, Dictionary.com defined itself.
Coronavirus killed more Americans in Joe Biden’s first year in office than during Donald Trump’s last. But people drank in bars, crowded the stands at sporting events, and flew on airplanes, so it worked, relatively speaking, as a good year, at least for those surviving it.
Events conspired in 2021 to force QAnon Shaman, like Mr. Potato Head and Aunt Jemima, to drop, if only in the Officer Obie-like legal proceedings confronting him, the name we came to know him by. If the mob had only looted a Nordstrom’s in Nancy Pelosi’s district instead of rummaged through her workplace, then they would have walked free — and we would have remained free of the notion that the guy who put that MAGA hat on a statue of Gerald Ford amounted to Spartacus, the gentleman who took a sheet of Pelosi’s stationary Robespierre, and the man posing with the speaker’s podium Che.
The mob’s collective hallucination proved contagious as congressional Democrats spearheaded the impeachment of Citizen Trump as though he remained the chief executive. Even Joe Biden caught the pretender bug in believing himself, and not Joe Manchin, the real president.
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