1. The war metaphor was always a double edged sword. It evokes the idea of a common and shared purpose sacrifice but also, as with Trump telling Americans they are "warriors" an implicit defense of sending people to their deaths.
2. But let's push the metaphor further. If the pandemic is a war, then what sort of military leader is Trump. He's not a Grant, Pershing or an Eisenhower. He's a Custer, a Haig, a Westmoreland.
3. Trump is running the metaphorical war on the Invisible Enemy with the same ineptitude of America's other recent wars. Kushner hiring 20 something GOP failsons to procure medical supplies is exactly like how Bush staffed the Green Zone with Heritage Foundation interns.
4. More thoughts on Trump's "wartime presidency" and the pandemic. thenation.com/article/politi…
