Good morning. 
Tuesday in Whitewater will be cloudy, with snow overnight, and a high of twenty-eight. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset 4:29 PM, for 9h 04m 42s of daytime. The moon is full with 99.7% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is both the one thousand five hundred twelfth and the fifty-third day.
On this day in 1949, KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
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Paul Waldman writes Trump is growing smaller before our eyes:
The myth of the stolen election is central to that project, and to the president’s own psyche: It says that the story of 2020 is not that Trump is a failure and a loser, but that he is (as always) a victim, and justice can be obtained by putting him back in his rightful place of power. But as he continues to proclaim the myth, reality might make it less compelling even to those now inclined to believe it.
For the next four years, Biden will be president. It will be his face on the nightly news and his actions on the front page of the newspaper. He will command both attention and power. And Trump? With no ability to make decisions with more practical importance, he might appear smaller than ever by comparison.
The truth is that both of these futures are possible. In one, Trump remains the leader of the opposition and a president-in-exile, his every outburst celebrated by millions of fans and his control of the GOP unchallenged. In the other, he grows smaller and smaller, his miserable complaints about the unfairness of it all only repelling people from him. We don’t know yet which will come to pass, but the second future is obviously far brighter for the rest of us. And it has never looked more likely.
(The nativist man will fade, but nativism will go on. See Man and Movement.)
Adam Gabbatt writes As the White House changes hands, so will Fox News’ support of the presidency:
When Joe Biden is sworn in as president on 20 January, cable news viewers may witness one of the most dramatic 180-degree turns in history.
After four years of slavishly promoting the president, Fox News is expected to pump on the brakes within seconds of the inauguration ceremony.
All of a sudden, the person in the White House is not a Republican. More than that, the network can no longer rely on the willingness of the president or his aides to call into Fox News any time of the day or night.
The rightwing TV channel, and its big name hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, will spend the next four years as the party of the opposition.
(A network that spent four years justifying the abusive expansion of federal power – outside all law and tradition – will rediscover caution. Situational isn’t a substitute for serious.)
Andrea Salcedo reports Massachusetts GOP leader says he likely got COVID-19 at a White House Hanukkah party: ‘I’m paying the price’:
Earlier this month, Tom Mountain, a Massachusetts Republican Party leader, posed for a maskless photo in front of a silver menorah as dozens of other guests without face coverings mingled nearby at a White House Hanukkah party.
Three days later, the vice chairperson of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee was rushed to the hospital with a severe case of COVID-19 that later left him close to needing a ventilator.
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“Lets put it this way: when I went down to Washington, D.C. for the White House Hanukkah event, I was perfectly fine,” Mountain, 60, told WJAR. “And three days later after that event, I was in the hospital … ready to be put on a lifesaving ventilator.”