March 11, 2020

Trump Can’t Handle the Truth

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/opinion/trump-economy-coronavirus.html
"The point is that Trump’s luridly delusional response to the coronavirus and his conspiracy theorizing about Democrats and the news media aren’t really that different from the way the right dealt with the financial crisis a dozen years ago. True, last time the crazy talk wasn’t coming directly from the president of the United States. But that’s not the important distinction between then and now. No, what’s different now is that denial and the resulting delay are likely to have deadly consequences."