George HW Bush’s funeral spurred much gushing over national unity, but such elite spectacles overlook real material divisions
The American political and media classes have a unity fetish.
Every anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, every election, every Fourth of July, and every time a high-profile politician dies, public discourse is awash in calls for unity and misty-eyed remembrances of times when the country was allegedly unified.
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