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I don’t think I’ve ever been as disturbed by Trump or certain sections of US society’s appetite for his bullshit as I am today reading about his presser yesterday. It’s one thing to bully your opinion to the front of the line whilst playing up to your base and echoing the dangerously ill informed at a time of unprecedented global vulnerability. It’s quite another to claim that those dangerous responses were other people’s and that you and only you are making heroic and informed calls to save lives.
In the context of the global publicity of his ignorance in relation to this crisis I’m frankly terrified that anyone at all can consider sipping his KoolAid let alone the proportion of Americans who still support him.
There just isn’t any space in politics for a leader to see the error of what they have done and walk it back without a false re-write of history. Imagine a scenario where he’d simply said “this moved faster than anyone was prepared for, we’re a huge and varied population with a complex social structure and a dynamic economy and we’re doing our best to stay ahead of the problem”. That would have been spin, but it wouldn’t have been a lie.