Posted on 04/05/2020 5:45:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - By the time Donald Trump proclaimed himself a wartime president - and the coronavirus the enemy - the United States was already on course to see more of its people die than in the wars of Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq combined.
The United States will likely go down as the country that was supposedly best prepared to fight a pandemic but ended up catastrophically overmatched by the novel coronavirus, sustaining heavier casualties than any other nation.
It did not have to happen this way. Though not perfectly prepared, the United States had more expertise, resources, plans and epidemiological experience than dozens of countries that ultimately fared far better in fending off the virus.
The failure has echoes of the period leading up to 9/11: Warnings were sounded, including at the highest levels of government, but the president was deaf to them until the enemy had already struck.
If the coronavirus has exposed the country's misplaced confidence in its ability to handle a crisis, it also has cast harsh light on the limits of Trump's approach to the presidency - his disdain for facts, science and experience. He has survived other challenges to his presidency - including the Russia investigation and impeachment - by fiercely contesting the facts arrayed against him and trying to control the public's understanding of events with streams of falsehoods.
The coronavirus may be the first crisis Trump has faced in office where the facts - the thousands of mounting deaths and infections - are so devastatingly evident that they defy these tactics.
After months of dismissing the severity of the coronavirus, resisting calls for austere measures to contain it, and recasting himself as a wartime president, Trump seemed finally to succumb to the coronavirus reality.
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Spit
Wasting time on Shampeachment instead.
No bias there. ha
Reeks with the stench of anti-Americanism.
BARF. I couldn’t read past the first three sentences, my gag reflex kicked in.
Yeah because Pelosi, Schumer, Cuomo, Biden, were sounding the alarm and Trump didn’t listen. /s
Total bs.
tryin’ not to be cursin’ on Palm Sunday but...
It didn't happen this way, stupit.
“denial and dysfunction” ...so thats how the Compost spells “impeachment” ...or better yet “seditious conspiracy”
Our enemies are embolden
Even in the midst of a national health crisis, Big Media still finds time to bash the President.
This constant childishness and pettiness is despicable.
No wonder most people have no respect for Big Media anymore!
I guess the memo’s gone out.
Which they called Contempt of Congress and obstruction of justice. Oh yea. Which he beat too.
These derps are a mess and will just make up any old thing to say, despite our lying eyes.
The balls on these people.
Oh, please. Everybody knows “institutional racism” caused the virus problem ..........luckily JFK freed the slaves.
Thanks for that, I was actually about to ask you to share that collage on this thread.
lol
I mean we all know about the sham Russian stole the election and sham impeachment crap that was going on for ..THREE YEARS.
The left are vile destructive arrogant bastards.
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