By S.T. Patrick According to the Chinese calendar, 2020 was to be the “Year of the Rat.” It may be difficult to prove that this was anything less than acute foresight on the part of the Chinese, yet, for Americans, we have also just closed the “Year of Living Fearfully.” For the first time in America’s history, a president will dispute the final election results through Inauguration Day. Not even the Confederacy disputed that Lincoln won; they just disputed the systemic electoral structure by which he was able to win. This was an election cycle in which the Democrats all but openly admitted that they, for the second consecutive cycle, cheated Sen. Bernie Sanders out of the nomination. And, for the second consecutive cycle, Sanders prostrated himself to the party bosses and Buy-A-Candidacy billionaire Michael Bloomberg shouting “Thank you, ma’am. May I please have another?” The Democrats bungled the Iowa Caucus so badly that former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg clumsily announced on Twitter that he had won before any official tally had been reported. No surprise—he did win. It’s amazing what having predetermined election results does for predictions.