We talk about the "political class" here but I think some folks are missing the forest for the trees here. See, at the start of Covid what I recall was the moment the "we're all in this together" rhetoric ended was when we got indication Black folks had worse outcomes.
the Mountain GoatsI agree strongly with this -- in that difficult moment, the possibility of collective effort was conceivable. Not everybody felt it, but many did. I think the political class did not like this one bit.