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As for me, I’m still more liberal than not, and my hope for 2025 is that I will bring my colleagues around on some issues I still hold dear—like why DEI sometimes serves a purpose, and why vaping could save millions of lives.

The president-elect? I still loathe him, but as you can see from this column, I’ve shed the Trump Derangement Syndrome that characterizes, say, the Upper West Side. As I write in the column, “The voters have spoken.”