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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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 experience of radical upheaval from one month to the next, but combined with a deadly global pandemic, huge racial unrest, the collapse of the economy, and a torrid, nerve wracking presidential election, 2020 wins the prize for being one of the shittiest year in human history.
How Covid beat Trump
As Covid-19 tore through the nation killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, president Trump decided that it wasn’t really a big deal and did his best to ensure as many people died as possible. The entire planet sat back aghast as the leader of the free world careened from one spectacular disaster to the next, shredding the country’s reputati…
