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Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 05:37 AM Jul 2020

Trump and Republicans have become a post-policy party. Coronavirus proves it.

NBC
July 9, 2020, 4:31 AM EDT
By Steve Benen, "Rachel Maddow" producer and author of "The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics"


The more Trump and GOP leaders effectively abandon their roles as serious policymakers, the more breakdowns are impossible to avoid.

As part of his needlessly divisive remarks on the Fourth of July, President Donald Trump briefly took note of the nation's struggle with the coronavirus crisis. "Our strategy," the president assured his audience, "is moving along well."

Even by Trump standards, it was a curious boast. Now with 3 million confirmed cases in the United States, and over 130,000 American deaths from COVID-19, few would look at the public health landscape and conclude that the federal response is progressing "well."

But there was also a problem with the assumption upon which the boast was based: The president believes there's a federal strategy?

If there is, it's hiding exceptionally well. Months after the pandemic arrived, the Trump administration still does not have a national testing strategy. Or a federal program in place to fully furnish medical facilities with personal protective equipment. Or meaningful guidance to offer state and local officials on how, when and whether to reopen safely in the wake of mitigation efforts in the spring.

The result is, to be sure, a public health crisis that appears to be intensifying with each passing day. But just as important, Americans should also recognize these conditions as part of a governing crisis.


Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna1233252
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Trump and Republicans have become a post-policy party. Coronavirus proves it. (Original Post) Mike 03 Jul 2020 OP
The Republican Party really hasn't been about policy in a long time. RDANGELO Jul 2020 #1
On the contrary malaise Jul 2020 #2
Tax cuts. Laelth Jul 2020 #3

RDANGELO

(3,430 posts)
1. The Republican Party really hasn't been about policy in a long time.
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 05:50 AM
Jul 2020

To them it is not about policy; it is about other people.

Go to the social media boards. All they want to talk about is the people they don't like.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
3. Tax cuts.
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 06:35 AM
Jul 2020

Since Reagan, that’s the only policy that they have advanced consistently. Tax cuts are NOT a means of governing the nation.

-Laelth

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