Checkers Monster Truck Crushes Everything That Sucked About 2020 (and That's a Lot)

The story behind an offbeat year-end marketing stunt

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Just before the end of 2020, Pew released an unsurprising survey that when it comes to everything from the economy to the coronavirus and the presidential election, the people of the United States more or less agree on… nothing. “Americans,” the report’s authors wrote, “have rarely been as polarized as they are today.”

Two weeks into the new year, however, it’s safe to say everyone can at least agree on one thing: 2020 was awful.

It’s why we saw 2020 dumpster fire T-shirts and why, just before Christmas, “2020 Sucked” ornaments appeared on trees.

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