If America rises to the occasion, it will be despite Trump, not because of him. frankrichny writes
He’s doing about as well as you’d expect. Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images Most weeks, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich speaks with contributor Alex Carp about the biggest stories in politics and culture. Today, Trump’s response to coronavirus shortages, how the press should cover Trump’s exaggerations and failed promises, and how to hold primaries during a pandemic.
Right now the country is waiting for a bomb to drop: that much-predicted turning point when the metastasis of illness and mass death in the U.S. could match the curve we’ve seen in Italy. Trump’s nonstop lies — and those of toadies like Pence — are not just intended to cover up the many failures to prepare for the looming apocalypse , or to blame those failures on China and Obama, or to luxuriate in unearned self-congratulation .
Jared Kushner may well be once again at the center of that buckraking. One of the more damning stories of the week, reported by the Washington Post, is that Kushner has started his own shadow coronavirus operation within the White House that is getting in the way of the administration’s public efforts.
True enough, but Burr, despicable as he is, amounts to at most a foot soldier in the criminal enterprise being run out of the White House.
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