Don't Forget to Blame Mitch McConnell for the Coronavirus Crisis

[Newest Reality]

More than anyone, the Senate majority leader enabled Trump, whose reckless leadership has made the covid-19 crisis much worse than it had to be

Something you’ve probably heard once or twice over the last month is that the coronavirus crisis in the United States is significantly worse than it had to be thanks to the leadership style of Donald Trump, the pillars of which include ignoring experts, not reading his briefing materials, and thinking that he, a man who can’t pronounce the word “Nevada,” is some kind of genius. Applied to the current situation, that meant downplaying the deadly virus even as it engulfed China and other parts of the world; refusing to “do anything” throughout January and February, despite dire warnings coming from his own officials; and not pushing for testing because he thought the numbers would hurt his reelection chances. And listening to the advice of his equally dim son-in-law. And focusing on the stock market instead of the actual health crisis. And calling COVID-19 “fake news” as recently as March 9. So yes, when you think about who deserves the most blame for the United States surpassing Italy for the country with the highest number of coronavirus deaths, the answer is obviously Donald Trump. But let us not also forget to spread some of that blame around to his neck-pouched enabler, Mitch McConnell.

A new deep dive from The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer exploring McConnell’s political career—one in which he started out lacking any principles whatsoever or the desire to do anything beyond amass power—makes the extremely convincing argument that the Senate majority leader‘s decision to let Trump rule unchecked, in order to preserve his own standing, will be viewed one of the chief causes of thousands of American deaths.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/mitch-mcconnell-donald-trump-coronavirus

[intrepidity]

1. No shit. FUCK McConnell nt

[Under The Radar]

2. He gotta take more blame than that

[Hortensis]

3. Yes. This is in a very real sense a Republican-CREATED pandemic,

and America's voters really, really need to realize that.