Merrily

Trump is back in office, and his administration, led by the feckless billionaire Elon Musk, appears hell-bent on inflicting as much misery as possible as it merrily guts the federal government.

He merrily throws onto the passenger manifest the likes of Josephine Bonaparte, Josephine Baker, Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin.

I hung out with two Republican guys in suits who live in Brussels; they merrily ribbed each other and spoke about the importance of freedom to the American spirit.

Here, her arm draped merrily around her brother, she sang it as though it were a lesson in how to be happy.

But my most rapturous experience of the year came from director Maria Friedman‘s Tony-winning revival of “Merrily We Roll Along.”