Trump is uniquely incompetent, but how likely is it that a different president would pull the trigger & explicitly state their willingness to sacrifice re-election in order to fight the pandemic?
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Replying to @antirobust
I think that Trump is squandering a massive opportunity. Being de facto wartime president would ensure his reelection and expand his powers for reform. I'm pretty sure that Obama would have used the opportunity for reorganizing fed government and overdue healthcare reform.
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Replying to @Plinz
i could see this, yeah. on the other hand the economic damage-->political damage seems hard to avoid George W Bush probably did "benefit" politically from 9/11 and managed to wage war throughout an economic recovery, but that seems harder in this case, idk
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The public is going to be less forgiving of mismanaging the crisis than of economic hardship.
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