2020 In Review: Yet 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, if that’s even possible, every Friday until the end of December I’ll shout out five people who got us through this wretched year. (Here is the one from two weeks ago and 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 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?

Fiona Apple

Generation X may be ignored in every facet of American society — I swear, we’re basically the generation between Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg, which is a very depressing way to be described — but Fiona Apple is out there representing. Her album “Fetch the Bolt Cutters,” her first…