1. It's hard to overstate how bad things look right now for America being able to get a handle on the pandemic: support for the lockdown is becoming partisan, some state governments are prematurely lifting the lockdown, and outside of NY state it hasn't even peaked yet. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1257302227234033673 …
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3. But as so often in the Trump era, the disaster was caused not just by Trump's unfitness but also by the very political system that elevated Trump to a position he is unfit for. There's the failure of the GOP & the bipartisan failure of policy
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4. The GOP failure is a simple one: in their heart everyone in party elite knows Trump is unfit, yet they stuck with him. They had ample means of stopping him, up to and including impeachment & removal. At every step, they sided with him.
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5. The bipartisan failure can be seen by thinking about the vector points where the pandemic is spreading fast: meat packing plants, nursing homes, & prisons. These were tinder boxes long before Trump came to office thanks to deregulation, austerity & bad management.
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6. Some more thoughts on the size of the failure and the need for a reckoning.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-coronavirus-failure-reckoning/ …
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i'd say it's more due to both major parties being completely unwilling to pass the kinds of public policies necessary to sustain the populace and economy through the necessary lockdown
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I'm getting there.
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A Trump-type president, had he been our leader on December 8, 1941, would already have been looking for the off-ramp, and wondering when he could start sending strange mixed signals to PM Tojo.
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We’re either going to have a million dead and a probable breakdown of law and order, or the absolute worst people in the country are going to be proven right. god bless america.
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