The logical mistake that the author makes is the result of their deranged obsession with the personality of Trump. Honest informed people understand that the federalist form of government places the responsibility for public health in the hands of city and state authorities. Trump inherited a national pandemic response plan that was obsolete and relied on the laboratory testing of the CDC which was not scalable.
His rapid response task force quickly eliminated the shortages that this lack of planning created and his advocacy for widespread use of HCQ and Zinc would have significantly reduced the incidence of hospitalization and death if it had been followed as it was in many other countries with lower rates.
He was forced into the unnecessary strategy of shutting down the most successful economy in the world. If he was half the self obsessed dictator that Vox claims he is he would have rejected this bad advice to protect his reelection chances but he’s a highly moral person who did the right thing even at great personal cost.
The real reason informed people still support Trump is because they aren’t as easily fooled by propaganda from his enemies as Vox would like.
Exactly. It's the uninformed, misinformed and semi-informed that I'm worried about.