Opinion | America Is Too Broken to Fight the Coronavirus – The New York Times
This is what American exceptionalism looks like under Donald Trump. It s not just that the United States has the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths of any country in the world. Republican political dysfunction has made a coherent campaign to fight the pandemic impossible.
At the federal level as well as in many states, we re seeing a combination of the blustering contempt for science that marks the conservative approach to climate change and the high tolerance for carnage that makes American gun culture unique.
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The rot starts at the top. At the beginning of the crisis Trump acted as if he could wish the coronavirus away, and after an interval when he at least pretended to take it seriously, his administration has resumed a posture of blithe denial.
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Goodness. Is this really what the NYT and their readership thinks? I’d say time to buy another gun but the gun shops here in CA are all as good as closed. If Trump wins, it will be down in no small part to this sort of what you should call elitist attitudes, were they not so stupid. Most red states are not nearly as broken as NYC, honey.