Why neither covid-19 nor the assault on US democracy has sparked national unity or institutional change | No. 181 — January 30, 2022

Tying two strains together

Here is the best chart I saw this week. I think it tells a powerful story, which we’ll get to in a second.

Now, “best chart of the week” sounds like a high bar, but that’s really because I’ve been coding a lot for an upcoming project and haven’t seen many charts! But this one is still really good. I digress…

The chart comes from this New York Times piece …