The single biggest predictor of whether someone in America has been jabbed was how they voted in the elections in 2020. We look at how the country tackled covid-19 in 2021
“return to normalcy” was the campaign slogan of Warren Harding, who won the presidency in 1920. A century ago, Americans were reeling from the effects of war and a pandemic; Harding presented himself as a steady hand on the tiller, whereas his Democratic opponent was burdened with the legacy of his party’s unpopular incumbent, Woodrow Wilson.
History, as the saying goes, does not repeat itself, but it rhymes: a pandemic, war, a deeply unpopular incumbent president—“return to normalcy” could well have been Joe Biden’s slogan too. A familiar figure, partly by virtue of being the oldest president ever to take office, he fended off flashier and more radical Democratic challengers, and at the end of 2020, seemed the perfect candidate to lead his country back from the precipice.
Any hopes that Mr Trump’s resounding defeat presaged a return to politics as usual died six days into the year, when a Trumpist mob, whipped up at a rally by the defeated president and his cronies, the Capitol building while Congress was certifying Mr Biden’s electoral victory. Five people died in the riot; several Capitol Police officers then on duty committed suicide in the ensuing weeks. In anMr Trump’s numerous legal challenges were all laughed out of court, but his insistence that he actually somehow won the 2020 election has become an article of faith among Republicans.
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