January 4, 2021--A Consequential Week

Among other things this consequential week, we will learn who will gain control of the Senate (elections in Georgia will determine if it will be the Republicans or the Democrats). 

We will learn if Joe Biden will be certified as the president elect (the Congress will meet and presumably, after some Republican telegenic posturing, do that). 

We will see if Trump can turn out more than a few thousand supporters to put pressure on Congress to steal the election from Biden and somehow retain Trump in office (he is making a major effort via Twitter to turn out an angry crowd larger than the one that allegedly attended his inauguration four years ago).

And, most important, we will see if Republicans still believe in democracy and our Constitution (it appears that well over 100 GOP senators and House members are prepared to say they do not at the congressional meeting and on the streets of Washington).

The Georgia elections will be Tuesday and the congressional confirmation meeting and the Trump demonstration will both occur on Wednesday.

So if you have a youngster at home this week make sure she or he can be encouraged to watch some of this on TV as their children and grandchildren will be reading about these events 75 years from now, if we are still teaching history and there will still be text books.