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The Home Stretch

The future holds both promise and peril.

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Jonathan V. Last
November 5, 2020∙ Paid
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1. Half Empty

At some point in the next 48 hours, we are likely to know for certain that Joe Biden is the next president of the United States.

The face of all the world is changed.

This new era contains both danger and promise. Let’s do the bad news first. You will be unsurprised to learn that it starts with Donald Trump.

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