March 14, 2020

A President Unequal to the Coronavirus Moment

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/a-president-unequal-to-the-moment
"Trump has spent years devaluing and diminishing facts, experts, institutions, and science—the very things upon which we must rely in a crisis—and his default setting during the coronavirus outbreak has been to deny, delay, deflect, and diminish. His speech on Wednesday night was a disappointment but not a surprise. He told us what we already knew: America is in big trouble."