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2020: The Year Covid Beat Trump And Uncovered A Deep Rot In America
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2020: The Year Covid Beat Trump And Uncovered A Deep Rot In America

The Coronavirus made Americans look at themselves and attempt to come to terms with the deeply fractured society they have created.

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Dec 29, 2020
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by Ben Cohen

To call 2020 a disaster would be like calling the sinking of the Titanic a minor boating incident. 2020 has been, for lack of a better word, cataclysmic.

America has undergone more societal and economic and change in the past year than at any time in living memory. The Trump presidency alone has been an e…

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