On New Year’s, if you listened real hard, you could almost hear the teeth of an entire nation grinding as Mayor Bill de Blasio danced with his wife in a virtually empty Times Square. At least Nero made his own music. https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/532355-bill-de-blasio-dancing-in-new-york-embodies-the-difficult-road-ahead

..Dancing in a nearly empty Times Square came across not as amorous but as delirious in a locked-down city with a collapsing economy and soaring crime rates. For many, it reinforced the crisis of leadership facing us that seems untethered from economic or political reality...

...we all increasingly live in artificial spaces-a dangerous delusion with a looming economic crisis, emerging international conflicts and rising violence. Unless the American middle can reemerge, we all will be dancing with de Blasio in a dead space where a country once thrived.