Anonymous wrote:The take no responsibility line along with all the bizarre and crazy stuff that he has been doing is killing him with independents and senior citizens. Its casting him as a weak, helpless person who is not able to lead. He handed over the mantle of leadership to the governors and the ones that have been pre-emptive and taking action like Cuomo, Newsom, DeVine and Hogan are getting huge bumps in positive polling from groups that did not vote for them or even agree with them on most things.
Why Trump and his campaign think that constantly crying about they should not have to do anything and people are on their own is a winning leadership message is beyond me. A leader who runs away isn't a leader.
Imagine how Ronald Reagan, Bush 1 or 2 , Clinton or Obama would have responded -they would be out there doing whatever the federal government could do. Heck even Cheney would have had his defense contractor machine making PPE on day 1. None of them would have believed China back in December/January and toddled off to go golfing because China doesn't shut down large areas of its economy unless its a disaster. In fact, all the previous presidents would have had their state and intelligence positions in place to catch what was going on in China in November and would have acted then.
All of them would have trusted their intelligence briefings (and read their briefing books). So all of them would have been working on a whole of government response led by experienced and expert scientists and public health officials by December Tens of thousands of people would still be alive today
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