There's a common thread in America's crises -- a president who's not leading

[DonViejo]

Dec. 11, 2020, 9:15 AM EST

By Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Carrie Dann and Melissa Holzberg

WASHINGTON —You have a deadly virus that’s grown out of control in this country. (In just the past week, more than 16,000 Americans have died, and the CDC director says we’re going to have more daily deaths than 9/11 over the next 60 to 90 days.)

You have congressional leaders who’ve been unable so far to come to any agreement on providing new economic relief to Americans who’ve been hurt by the coronavirus.

And you have a Republican Party that’s been split into two — Republicans who’ve come to accept that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, versus those who believe (falsely) that it was stolen from him. (And that divide is happening less than a month before the Georgia runoffs that will decide control of the Senate.)

What these three different stories all have in common is a lack of leadership, all starting with the president of the United States.

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[dalton99a]

1. Worse, a president who is hell bent on destroying America and killing Americans

[Mike 03]

2. Authoritarians like Trump deliberately "don't lead."

Their whole raison d'etre is to instigate crises for political advantage, because it plays into their narrative that there is a disintegrating world that only they can protect the nation from. They create crisis and blame somebody else, and rally their supporters to blame those people too because having shared enemies is a dream come true for someone who aspires to be a dictator.