2020 In Review: Five More People Who Got Us Through This Awful Year

Next in a weekly series until this monstrosity of a year is finally over.

This year has been awful: You don’t need me to tell you that. But to try to accentuate the positive of this year, if that’s even possible, every Friday until the end of the year I’ll shout out five people who got us through this wretched year. (Here is last week’s.) These people may work in politics, or entertainment, or the arts, or any field in America or around the world. All that matters is that their contributions to the world in 2020 made it a little easier for the rest of us to make it through.

Also, send me your recommendations and nominees at williamfleitch@yahoo.com or in the Responses to this piece. Who has gotten you through this year?

Stacey Abrams

The state of Georgia has been at the center of the political world all year, and it’s going to be even more so in 2021. Abrams, who famously just lost her gubernatorial race against Brian Kemp in 2020, picked herself up and started Fair Fight, a voter registration juggernaut that may just have turned Georgia…