More Americans have now died from coronavirus in the last two months than died in the entire twenty-year Vietnam War. The death rate is still averaging more than two thousand per day. Infections and deaths have yet to show any kind of serious decline. Yesterday saw more American deaths — nearly three thousand — since this crisis began.
Yet Trump, his family, and his surrogates are acting like this is now a small problem far in the rearview mirror. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Graham is spot on when he says: "For leaders to solve a problem, they have to convince people they understand it. Trump’s inability to understand the depth of human suffering in the pandemic has slowed his response at every turn and hobbled his ability to rally the resources needed to address the crisis."
And his final paragraph is brilliant: "As the United States faces the greatest crisis since World War II, armed protesters are running amok in state legislatures, the President is feuding with governors, and public-health measures have become political footballs. It didn’t have to be this way. Americans are willing—desperate, even—to be inspired. A steady leader could bring the nation together to face the immense challenge ahead. But Trump is too busy taking a victory lap. One might even say that nothing could be worse than declaring victory before the victory is won."
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