The Government Has Dismantled Our Ability to Grieve as a Nation

Grief is an unwieldy weapon, and the GOP has shown it would rather mock death than mourn it.

Activists in San Francisco honor victims of Covid-19 who died while incarcerated Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Over the past few weeks, as the number of deaths across the country from Covid-19 soared past 80,000, the media expressed a mix of surprise and dismay that President Donald Trump appears utterly…