Well done, Cori Bush

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Well done, Cori Bush

In August of 2020, Cori Bush shocked the political world by defeating a ten-time incumbent and became the first Black woman to represent Missouri in the United States Congress. She leaves four years later, losing her seat after an intense and bruising campaign. It’s possible to recap Bush’s political trajectory in those two sentences and be done with it. But I think that would be a mistake.We should not close out this chapter without marking the…