How Trump Broke America: A Story of Unparalleled Economic Pain and Human Death

[Demovictory9]

How Trump Broke America: A Story of Unparalleled Economic Pain and Human Death
Historic 33% economic crash, 1,500 Covid-19 deaths per day, and tens of millions out of work and on verge of losing their homes.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/07/31/how-trump-broke-america-story-unparalleled-economic-pain-and-human-death

Trump's refusal last winter to pull out all the stops to mount an effective national coronavirus response has broken the legs of America. On Wednesday, over 1500 coronavirus deaths were reported nationwide, a tally not seen since May. Over 150,000 Americans have died of the disease, and the prospect is that tens of thousands more will succumb.

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The United States needs a national coronavirus response, and it has been denied one by Donald J. Trump. The president treated the pandemic like one of the women he sexually assaulted, who could safely be ignored or paid off with a little sum under the table to go away. It will all disappear, he said, by April. It will just go away one day. His irrational opposition to mitigation efforts—closing down public gatherings for long enough to start the virus on a downward spiral, wearing masks, testing and contact tracing, nationwide provision of personal protective equipment (PPE) to the medical system—all of this obfuscation deeply wounded the national response. States were thrown on their own devices, but had over the past 15 years deeply cut their county health departments. They were made to compete with one another for needed resources.

Trump thumbed his nose at CDC guidelines for public gatherings, insisting on a mega campaign rally in Tulsa and tried (though he failed) to get 100,000 people to attend. About 6,000 showed up, sitting in a stadium with no social distancing and no masks. There was subsequently a spike in coronavirus cases in that county, and who knows how many people were infected? Initially the stadium had tried to reserve every other seat in the stadium so as to keep at least a little distance between the attendees, but Trump campaign workers removed the stickers so as to cram them in tight for a good camera shot.

As the cases of Germany and South Korea show, the coronavirus challenge can be dealt with by a reasoned and efficient national public policy. Trump has none.

Trump has broken America.

[sprinkleeninow]

1. "...broken the legs of America..."

😭

[meadowlander]

2. He didn't do it alone.

Never forget. Never forgive.

[Skittles]

3. and all these repukes with their NOT VOTING FOR TRUMP stories helped the GOP

and they helped to create Trump

FUCK THEM ALL

[canetoad]

4. I'd much rather

We didn't use the generic millenial term 'broken' to describe everything that doesn't go as planned.

We should be specific in our criticism of the Trump clusterfuck: corrupt, venal, incompetent, treacherous, ignorant, greedy, self-aggrandising, and so on.

There are plenty of really good, pointed words to use. The generic 'broken' just doesn't do him justice.

[tanyev]

6. It made me think of the mafia threat to break someone's legs.

[Martin Eden]

5. It's very easy to understand

Why Vlad Putin wanted Trump in the White House.

[Kitchari]

7. It was all very deliberate

Depraved, corrupt, conscience-less

[Boomerproud]

8. Magats share responsibility for this.

The cult is still strong where I work and with some members of my family.