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The Ghost of Grover Cleveland Hovers over 2020, and 2024

If Democrats lose one of the two US Senate races in Georgia on January 5, 2021, it will leave : “M r. Biden as the first Democratic president since Grover Cleveland in 1885 to take office without Democrats in control of both congressional chambers….NEW YORK TIMES”. Suddenly, in 2020, the ghost of President Grover Cleveland is loitering over America’s   future, bizarre. Mr. Cleveland was the 22 nd and 24 th President of the United States. He won the Presidency in the election of 1884, lost it in the election of 1888 and won it again in the election of 1892. Grover Cleveland is an interesting case of Americana;     the son of a Presbyterian minister, he had a checkered personal life; yet he kept the devotion of his supporters over three election cycles. Beginning in 1868, until Teddy Roosevelt in 1901, every American President had served the Republic in the Homeric conflict of that age, the American Civil War. All save Cleveland. He did not exactly dodge the conflict; he did not have bon