Happy New Year! If the people lead, our leaders will follow.

What's to say? We've made it through one year of our elected autocrat's destruction. Three years more to go and then ... what will we make of it?

The higher tranches of American society -- corporate law firms, academic institutions, most politicians -- rolled over and played dead before the Trump onslaught.

The middle and lower classes didn't roll over. We are more and more gaining confidence that we don't have to succumb to the Mad King and his MAGA hordes. 

They are not who we are. They can hurt us, both as a society and as individuals. Many will be hurt beyond recovery. But this is not who we are and, more and more, we aren't going to take it.

I'll be back here on January 2. In the meantime, I'm going to enjoy watching football.