The five stages, denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.
This “Brokered Convention” nonsense is the bargaining stage.
Sorry for the double post.
My computer had a hiccup.
I so look forward to the liquid effluvia of the "depression" stage .... that will be nectar for me, and a tonic for the Republic.