<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The Today's Issues group is meeting at 9:30 on Sundays in the parlor of the Religious Education building next to the church, following social distancing guidelines.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">For this Sunday, February 28, 2021, we will be discussing a brief essay from the New York Times February 20.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f0C8pCKHBY8c49djamI01ejUcuqcoN0IbYbCMFhO3yQ/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="text-indent:36pt;text-decoration-line:underline;font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Democrats Beat Trump in 2020. Now They’re Asking: What Went Wrong</span><span style="text-indent:36pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">?</span></a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span id="m_4325189324536854756gmail-docs-internal-guid-62dfa5b7-7fff-194c-9d72-dcbb7e7cca2e"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-indent:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Disappointed by down-ballot losses, Democratic interest groups are joining forces to conduct an autopsy of the election results. Republicans do not yet seem willing to reckon with the G.O.P.’s major defeats.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-indent:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">By Alexander Burns       Feb. 20, 2021 NY Times</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-indent:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;text-indent:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A copy of the essay is attached.  Please do the reading and join our lively discussion.  </span></p></span><br></div></div>