1. Obama: “More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing. A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge.” True: USA has no national leadership now during an emergency.
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4. Unless something unexpected happens, Trump is going to be president until at least January 20, 2021. In normal times, that would be bad, in a pandemic it's truly catastrophic. No chance of national leadership for 8 months.
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5. America has come up with a defacto work-around for Trump being president during the pandemic: governors & private sector taking the lead. But this is a global pandemic & there are foreign policy actions only a president can perform.
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6. Some more thoughts on what it means to have no national leadership during a global crisis.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/coronavirus-obama-commencement-president/ …
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"Seems"????
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Time to demand Congress impeach Trump again.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Don't say Congress when you mean the Senate.
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