For list-makers, these past weeks have been a source of pleasure, satisfaction and confirmation.

We are bombarded with “the best of” this and “the worst of” that. There seems to be nothing the writers can’t put in a list at the end and beginning of each year. We are admonished incessantly about what we should expect in 2025. And none of it seems good.

Many of us anticipate Jan. 20 with concern and dread. How could the American people elect Donald Trump to a second term? But that’s their politics and their business, regardless of how the rest of the world anticipates the worst.

Contemplating the darkness about to descend on the North American political future leads me to ask: Where is the light?

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