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Trump Has Often Floundered Before
But he’s always managed to get the people he needs back behind him eventually
There are lots of reasons to believe this time will be different. Maybe.
Starting with the President’s decision to forgo any national strategy for fighting COVID-19, and instead continually downplay it and then give up (or actually worse: drag it down to a “blame game”, where he’s the one being treated “unfairly”, not the victims), as record numbers of Americans continue to be touched by the disease with infections soaring in many places that hadn’t been hard hit before. And then there was his decision to pepper spray a bunch of peaceful protestors so he could go outside and hold a bible. And then there was his disastrous tiny crowd rally in Tulsa (after he’d boasted of huge crowds). And then the revelation that Russia paid the Taliban bounties to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan, and Trump must’ve or should’ve known about it and did nothing. (Although that story has kind of faded into the background for the moment.)
We also wonder why Trump hasn’t taken any concrete at least economic action against China, other than blaming them with words for the current pandemic. He’s never been shy about suddenly slapping tariffs on trading partners. So why only rhetoric for China if they’ve been so obviously…
