Posted on 03/21/2020 10:33:09 AM PDT by John Semmens
With New York City accounting for a disproportionately large share of the coronavirus cases in the US, Mayor Bill de Blasio is blaming President Trump because "we need radical action right away."
The Mayor declined to take any radical action himself, saying "that's not my job. There needs to be a single point from which all dictates must be issued. That point is the President. Those of us at the local level must remain free, as we have been thus far, to criticize any mistakes or flaws that might taint the President's actions."
One of the "flaws" that the President's political opponents have freely criticized so far was "the racist travel ban" Trump imposed on travel to the US from China in early February. Former Vice-President Joe Biden denounced the ban calling it "xenophobic, unnecessary, and a threat to the sensitive business arrangements between the Chinese government and my son." However, medical experts are now crediting Trump's travel ban for reducing the spread of the disease in the US.
In related news, CNN's Stephen Collinson charges that "Trump's repeated efforts to offer Americans a glimmer of hope in these dark times impedes the portrait of disaster and doom we have been cultivating. Look, our efforts to oust Trump over Russian collusion was years in the making and fell through. We got the House to impeach him over the Ukraine phone call, but were stymied by the Senate's refusal to convict. This virus may be our last chance before voters reelect him in November. Surely the chaos that has ensued since he took office ought to show the American people that their best hope for peace and quiet won't be attained as long as Trump remains president."
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the new meme they’re trying to start up is that the President must take some unspecified ‘drastic action’ and is not doing so. I saw an MSNBC story try this angle yesterday.
Yes. Then when “drastic action” causes mass unemployment Trump will be criticized for mismanaging the economy.
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