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How Texas lost the war on Covid-19. Important to note that Abbott intervened to prevent local official from requiring masks or imposing social distancing 1/ houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
And high-frequency data, like restaurant reservations and this Apple mobility data, suggest that the economic bounce has stalled or gone into reverse — because it was based on false pretenses 2/
Indeed 3/
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One thing you can sense from Republicans is an outraged sense of injustice — how dare the world throw Covid-19 at them, when things seemed to be going so well? But the real surprise is that it took this long for Trump to face a real crisis 1/
Every other modern president faced some kind of external challenge during his first three years. Obama took office amid a financial crisis. Whatever you think of his response, GW Bush faced 9/11. Clinton faced stubbornly high unemployment, Bush the elder Saddam Hussein 2/
But Trump inherited a nation at peace, with a steadily growing economy. Until this March he could just sit on top of a smoothly moving train and claim that he was driving it 3/
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Trump officials "hope Americans will grow numb to the escalating death toll"; that's their pandemic strategy. It's vile, but is it realistic? 1/ washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
Three reasons to think it isn't. One is a historical parallel: high crime rates were a feature of the US landscape from the late 60s through the 90s — although with a much lower death toll than Covid-19. Did "law and order" disappear as an issue? 2/
Second, fear of the virus is having a big impact on consumer behavior. This will dampen or reverse job losses; also, if people are worried about something in their daily lives, won't it also affect their votes? 3/
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What strikes me about Trump right now is not the vileness and hatred — we knew all that — but the naked display of panic, his obvious awareness that he can't rise to this moment 1/ nytimes.com/2020/07/04/us/…
More than three years into his term, Trump confronted his first real crises — Covid-19 and a remarkable surge of national awareness over racism. Another president might have sought to deal with these crises. Trump didn't even try 2/
He could have listened to experts and done what almost every Western leader did — try to contain the pandemic. Instead, he's just dug deeper and deeper into denial. He still won't wear a mask! 3/
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