The biggest stories of the coming year are all about the US election. The baseline of the Trump re-election campaign will be sounded by a 60-second Super Bowl commercial February 2. (Michael Bloomberg has paid as much for a similar slot later in the game.) The Democratic voting will begin with the Iowa caucuses two days later. Assessment of various subplots by the mainstream press will continue. The attempt to persuade Ukraine to invrstigate Hunter Biden has been kicked upstairs to the Senate in the form of an act of impeachment. The story of the administration’s attempted decapitation of the…