A lot of people assume that the pandemic and mass joblessness means that the election is effectively over and Trump has no chance of winning. I am one of them.
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The argument pushed relentlessly through the convention that Trump is an essentially inert figure and that the pandemic necessitated leadership of the kind he was incapable of offering seems exactly right
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The problem is the Dems were similarly inert at critical moments. They're hoping their role as 'opposition' works to obscure this but I'm not so sure
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DeBlasio was within his domain arguably worse than Trump. But he's not the President and doesn't bear overall responsibility for a nation where unemployment levels exceeds those of the Great Depression.
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the all pervasive idea that presidents "create jobs" or unemployment is sophomoric. It's true only in the sense they can either get out of the way or not.
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In Trump's case he faltered on wielding the DPA which would have literally created productive jobs, though probably not nearly enough to offset the downturn from the epidemic.
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