Democrats are scrambling to hang the Coronavirus "crisis" around Trump's neck. They'll weaponize anything in an effort to damage and destroy Trump. And given that every other coup attempt has failed, and that they may soon have a Leninist crackpot as party standard-bearer, the desperation among Democrats is palpable.
But if you look back on it, and don't suffer from convenient amnesia, you'll see that the outbreak really began to escalate at a time when the President and Congress were a tad preoccupied, for critical weeks on end, with the Soviet-style show trails called "impeachment."
That was the sole focus, 24/7, not just of America's political elite but of the press. I remember posting a FB item at the time, asking, "Hello, Washington, is anyone paying attention to this?"
Perhaps the President should have and could have acted more decisively -- although let's be frank about it, Trump's announcement of a quarantine on China would then have been used as a reason to paint him as autocratic, opportunistic, xenophobic, racist, etc. It was a damned-if-he-did, damned-if-he-didn't situation, as with everything this President says or does.
The fact that he was trying to fend-off a partisan coup attempt might have been at least partially to blame if America wasn't fully focused on the coronavirus problem early enough.
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