Can Pelosi Make the Center Hold?

Heavy is the head that wears the crown.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaking with attendees at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention at the George R. Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California. June 19, 2019. (photo: Gage Skidmore)

This past year has been unfairly hard on Democrats.

Elections have consequences, and it seems winning in 2020 meant a good deal more than sending Donald Trump out to pasture in furthest Florida.

Winning in 2020 meant getting stuck on clean-up duty, KP- come what may with COVID19. And what came was far from an orderly…