As far as the White House is concerned, the coronavirus epidemic is solely a political emergency, not a public-health crisis. frankrichny writes
Trump at Wednesday’s press conference on the coronavirus. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/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 coronavirus plan, the wake of the South Carolina Democratic debate, and a looming shake-up at MSNBC.
In other words, not a single thing Trump said or did last night — with the possible exception of advising the public to wash its hands — bore any real-world relation to the public-health emergency supposedly under discussion. The only reason he even held the press conference was political: not the number of known American coronavirus patients but the numbers of Wall Street. For Trump, the Dow is the second most important barometer for assessing his political standing after Fox News.
Though many thought Trump might blow up his country and himself with a war against Iran, he is now poised, if things don’t proceed as rosily as he claims, to blow up America with his war against science. Let us pray. But for all that, the debate was clarifying on several fronts, none of them much of a source of hope.
Sanders might be seriously challenged if there were an adept challenger on stage. His wielding of the word billionaires to fend off any attack is absurd . The most effective arguments against him by far were articulated by Buttigieg, but let’s get real: A candidate with close to zero African-American support cannot be nominated by the Democrats and shouldn’t be.
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