Six Lost Weeks

Yesterday, The Guardian published an excellent piece (link here) about how Donald Trump absolutely squandered the first six weeks of the unfolding coronavirus crisis in the United States from January 20 until early March. The article is titled "The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life" with a secondary title of "The president was aware of the danger from the coronavirus – but a lack of leadership has created an emergency of epic proportions."

The piece opens by comparing Trump's bumbling start when faced with this catastrophe to that of South Korea, which was ahead of the curve from day one. The latter country of fifty million people now has the crisis almost completely licked and reports only a few dozen new cases a day.

As the piece goes on to inventory, every one of Trump's major personal flaws exacerbated his inept handling of the mushrooming disaster. His constant need for self-praise, his incessant lying, his anti-intellectualism, his inability to manage, and much more made everything so much worse, a handicapping that continues to this day.

Things are bad now but soon will be much worse. It didn't have to be like this. But expecting an inept, corrupt buffoon to somehow manage an enormously complex crisis is nothing but a folly.

We are stuck in this quagmire and the only way we can ensure something like this never happens again is to defeat Trump this November.