I think the candidates need to start banging the coronavirus drum. [View all]

[RockRaven]

We need to start hearing thing like "Trump has been lying to the public about this outbreak from day one. He cares more about manipulating the stock market from one day to the next than protecting the health, safety, and lives of the American people. This is not only incompetence, it is certainly negligence, it looks like malice, and Americans are dying because of his failures. This is wrong; the country deserves better from their President."

There is minimal danger in getting out ahead of one's skis on this (unless one makes specific predictions about case and death numbers -- which should not be done by the candidates, leave that to epidemiology types). The pandemic is here, it will not be contained, it will touch every community in this country, and Trump will direct ineffective and counterproductive measures while failing to follow completely the advice of experts. That can all be banked on as virtually certain to happen.

The more people point out that Trump is doing the wrong things on coronavirus, the more he will insist he is doing the right things and that there's no problem. That latter point is absolutely certain to be proven wrong, and we should use that to our advantage (without being triumphal/happy about it).