Beyond COVID-19
Apr 29, 2020
Coronavirus has exposed the United States’ own political virus
By
John Raidt
Well before COVID-19 upended the world, another kind of virulence was seizing the United States by the throat—a lethal strain of division and dysfunction infecting the nation’s body politic. Though US economic indicators had been climbing to new heights, the public perceived the danger in political indicators tumbling to alarming new lows.