It’s officially 2022, but this Sunday I’m going to cast one more look back at 2021. As is tradition, in addition to my annual “Worst of” lists, I always do a “Top Five Posts” retrospective as well.
Like the “Worst of” lists, I don’t base these posts off of their quality, but by the number of views they received. Some of them probably are very high-quality posts; others just got a lot of eyeballs.
I’ve also included the next three highest posts, which serendipitously worked out to be unique in their own ways, with two being of particular significance to the growth of the blog this year.
While I did not have any huge breakthrough posts in 2021—those garnering quadruple digits, like “Tom Steyer’s Belt“—my posts on average had more views, and my WordPress subscriber count increased substantially. It turns out that if you keep at something for a thousand days, you start gaining some traction! I also had substantially more commenter participation, thanks to folks hopping over from The Conservative Woman and Nebraska Energy Observer.
With that, here are 2021’s Top Five Posts:
The Portly Politico 