The Price of Political Incompetence

Trump sows uncertainty and seeks to cast blame in coronavirus crisis

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/commander-of-confusion-trump-sows-uncertainty-and-seeks-to-cast-blame-in-coronavirus-crisis/2020/04/02/fc2db084-7431-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html

Harry Truman famously had a sign on his White House desk that read, “The buck stops here”: ultimate responsibility for the country’s welfare rests with the president. Now contrast that with how the current occupant of the Oval Office has handled the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-denial-of-responsibility-for-covid19-death-toll-by-elizabeth-drew-2020-04

Ga. governor, who resisted strict measures, says he just learned virus transmits asymptomatically

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/02/georgia-gov-brian-kemp-who-resisted-strict-coronavirus-measures-says-he-just-learned-it-transmitted-asymptomatically/

A shadow over the Sunshine State

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/04/02/ron-desantis-is-donald-trumps-and-the-coronaviruss-favourite-governor 

Trump is not a president doing his best with a bad system. He is making a bad system worse

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/north-america/2020/03/trump-not-president-doing-his-best-bad-system-he-making-bad-system-worse

COVID-19 is unimpressed and unimpeded by the President’s bluster. And the prolonged process of his humbling has put untold numbers of Americans at risk.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/30/how-the-coronavirus-shattered-trumps-serene-confidence

3 Rules for the Trump Pandemic

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/opinion/trump-coronavirus.html

In pro-Trump West Virginia, a fight to convince residents a pandemic is coming

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/22/pro-trump-west-virginia-fight-convince-residents-pandemic-is-coming/