Where Is the President of the United States?  —  Donald Trump is AWOL.  And his disgrace is hiding in plain sight.  —  Before we start: Tonight we're doing a livestream that I'm hoping will go down in legend as The Bulwark version of the Star Wars Holiday Special.  The first 12 minutes will be entirely in Wookie.

Kelly Loeffler's latest nonsense exposes the worst of GOP nihilism  —  Our country confronts two of its most monumental crises of the modern era.  More than 3,300 Americans died of the coronavirus on Wednesday alone.  The latest weekly jobless claims are a shocker, totaling nearly 900,000.

Congress faces ‘fork in the road’ on stimulus  —  Negotiators on Capitol Hill and at the White House have still not wrapped up talks over a nearly $1 trillion coronavirus relief package ahead of a Friday deadline, as Republicans and Democrats spar over tens of billions of dollars in government spending.

Never-Trump movement splinters as its villain heads for the exit  —  The defeat of Donald Trump might have been the easy part for never-Trump Republicans.  Next up: taking on the more elusive target of Trumpism with their boogeyman gone from office.  —  More than a dozen leaders …

'Everything's great': GOP ditches election post-mortems  —  Democrats in Texas and New Hampshire are forming committees to examine the party's failings in last month's election.  Less formal autopsies are underway in states across the country.  —  But the party that lost the presidential election isn't soul-searching at all.