Actually, [Rudy Giuliani’s melting hairline] was a perfect sequel to the press conference fiasco at the Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philly — you know, the one between the sex shop and the crematory. That one betrayed the comic incompetence of the Trump legal operation. This one poetically exposes its inner corruption. In a way, I think Giuliani is doing the country an unwitting service by turning a vile conspiracy theory into a national punchline. Bret Stephens, Opinion columnist in the New York Times.

In the headlines, on the radio, on my computer, everywhere, the drumbeat of fear and loathing has been going on and on, seemingly forever; Trump, 200,000 dead, Trump, Covid, Trump, Wayne County, Trump, Covid, Trump, Trump. My relief has been watching Lewis Hamilton race. He just won his seventh championship and I wanted to write about it but I am caught in a sort of limbo of Now. Every day, the seductive drumbeat of today’s headlines pulls me back into the urgency of the constant Now. Today, at last, it feels like we are moving off the knife-edge between democracy and a Trump autocracy, it didn’t feel like that the day before yesterday or the day before that, those days felt more dangerous. For what seemed like weeks, day after day, the world felt precariously the same.

Way back on last October 25th, Lewis Hamilton won the Portuguese Grand Prix. In doing so, he passed the great Michael Schumacher to become the winningest driver in the history of Formula One. Watching him celebrate with his race engineer and then hug his dad – watching with about a four-hour time delay from 5660 miles away, I should be clear – I teared up. That was a surprise. I didn’t expect to be that moved. I tried talking about it in my blog but, as moved as I was, I couldn’t escape the limbo of Now. The daily drumbeat of fear and loathing crowded out almost everything else. Then, last weekend, Lewis won the Grand Prix of Turkey on a wet slippery track, on a day when his car was only sixth fastest, to become the World Champion for the seventh time and I knew I wanted to say something, or, at least, acknowledge it.

Two days ago? it seems like weeks, GSA Administrator Emily Murphy finally acknowledged – sort of – the transition from President Trump to President-elect Biden allowing her to release several million dollars for the transition. After four years, that often seemed longer, the nation’s attention was on somebody other than Donald Trump. Although, I have to say that even that always-before-routine task was given a Trumpian twist with Murphy referring to the President-elect as Mr. Biden in a long whinny letter in which she said that I have always strived to do what is right…I came to my decision independently just before Trump said that he told her to release the funds.

Right after the election, Michele became afraid that Trump was going to try a coup. I agreed but I was not very concerned that he would be able to pull it off. I think that Trump is just too inept to pull off something like a coup. Watching Rudy Giuliani’s slap-dash attempt was even more amateurish than I predicted. I realized that not only is Trump incapable of doing a good job, he is incapable of finding someone else to do it.

Now the attention is turning to President-elect Biden and his Cabinet picks. When I first started reading the names – Ron Klain, Antony Blinken, Alejandro Mayorkas, Avril Haines, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, John Kerry – not knowing any of them, except John Kerry, I was slightly annoyed. Then sort of elated; these are functionaries who have been doing the grunt work in past Democratic Administrations, not politicians looking to make a name. Now they are the bosses, known and reliable, who will hopefully do their job without drama. Hopefully is the operative word here, hopefully, their job will not be a return to almost constant drone strikes.

The exception is John Karry, the first Presidential Envoy for Climate,  who will, hopefully, bring some clout to working on the Climate Crisis.

The work we began with the Paris Agreement is far from done. I’m returning to government to get America back on track to address the biggest challenge of this generation and those that will follow. The climate crisis demands nothing less than all hands on deck.

It’ll be an honor to work with our allies and partners, alongside rising young leaders in the climate movement, to tackle the climate crisis with the seriousness and urgency it deserves. Tweets by John Kerry @JohnKerry Teresa’s husband, 28 years representing Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate, 68th U.S. Secretary of State, now fighting the climate crisis. Proud Bostonian buildbackbetter.com/the-administra…