The gut punch, the shock of spring was hard,

but the fall felt like just being kicked when you were already down.

Like we are all solo on any sort of reserves or margin or resources or patience,

and it just felt like the hits kept coming.

But I do want to recognize the bright spots that this was a free and fair election

and that millions and millions of Americans participated in it.

And that is fantastic and that is wonderful.

This is Sarah and Beth, your listening to Pant-Soup Politics,

the home of grace-filled political conversations.

Hello everyone, welcome to the final episode of Pant-Soup Politics for 2020,

for anyone who is a new listener.

I and our fabulous team take the final two weeks of the year off to let ourselves rest

and recover and we certainly need that.

After this year, you know, in past, at the end of a year here at Pant-Soup Politics,

we've done such, such hopeful episodes like, what we wish, if we had a magic one,

what do we want to see policy wise?

That did not feel appropriate for 2020, maybe in January, but for 2020,

we really wanted to process with all of you this incredible, historical, unprecedented year.

And so that's what we're going to do.

We're going to walk through the different seasons of 2020, the events that had they happened one at a time

in a single year, what have seemed momentous, but that when you really line them up

and take it all in, you realize that we have been asked to face, confront, deal with,

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