How Trump let Covid-19 win
Posted on AllSides August 24th, 2020
From The Left
ANALYSIS
Trump’s magical thinking couldn’t beat the coronavirus. America is stuck with the consequences.
As America, and even his own administration, woke up to the threat of Covid-19, President Donald Trump still didn’t seem to get it. Within weeks of suggesting that people social distance in mid-March, the president went on national TV to argue that the US could reopen by Easter Sunday in April. “You’ll have packed churches all over our country,” Trump said in March. “I think it’ll be a beautiful time.”
The US wasn’t able to fully and...