Something I didn't fully realize till the past month: it's dangerous to have a leader whose base holds him to a low standard. If Trump's base insisted he take charge of the Covid-19 response, he'd have to. But since they're satisfied with press conferences, that's all we get.
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You might think Republican leaders would privately urge Trump to get his act together. Especially since so many of them are over 60. I don't know why they haven't. Perhaps they know it wouldn't work.
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Do you have any special visibility into that, given your position in certain intellectual and business circles?
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I don't know anything about what's happening within the Republican party. I hear a little about what's happening within the White House, and it's not good.
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