Conspicuously Absent

Ever noticed...all that is conspicuously absent in the media after a US election?  Like, where did all the bad news (not to mention terrifying) suddenly go?

President Trump is inheriting an economy that is about as good as it ever gets.

-- Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics

The country that President Joe Biden and his Democratic administration will leave behind when they leave office is in the best shape it’s been in since at least 2000.

No U.S. troops are fighting in foreign wars, murders have plummeted, deaths from drug overdoses have dropped sharply, undocumented immigration is below where it was when Trump left office, stocks have just had their best two years since the last century. The economy is growing, real wages are rising, inflation has fallen to close to its normal range, unemployment is at near-historic lows, and energy production is at historic highs. The economy has added more than 700,000 manufacturing jobs among the 16 million total created since 2020.

-- Peter Baker

Another conspicuously absent thing to notice today (compared to 4 yrs ago).  Which makes this observation of one of our nations founding fathers more pertinent than ever:

There is no ‘set it and forget it’ version of self-rule. We have a very fine Constitution, fine statutes, fine courts, fine institutions. That is not enough. We say that we live under a government of laws, not men, but that isn’t quite right: It is the government of men standing behind the government of laws that keeps that government of laws standing upright. The laws are not self-executing. The courts are not self-managing. The institutions are not self-reinforcing.

-- John Adams, warning of the particular fragility of our system of government and that each citizen must actively participate in its defense