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Eric Klinenberg decided to focus on 2020 by using seven New Yorkers as his lens.

A pandemic hangover may be clouding American politics.

Although diminished, the pandemic has become the background music of the presidential campaign trail, shaping how voters feel about the nation, the government, and their politics.

Author Eric Klinenberg doesn’t just want you to recall 2020 — the pandemic with its lockdown and rising death toll, the attempt at a racial reckoning after George Floyd’s murder and the presidential election where the loser refused to accept reality — he wants you to reexamine it.