Death has come to America. It was always here, albeit obscured and denied, but now everybody can see it. The “war” that America is waging against it has no choice but to go above, around and beyond an empty figurehead. This is a collective effort; there are millions of people involved in it, and they won’t easily forget what they have seen. They won’t forget the abject, exceptionally American, predicament of watching individual states, as New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, memorably put it, bidding as if “on eBay” for lifesaving equipment. Death comes to all—but in America it has long been
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