MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:05 am
I agree that HRC would have handled this better, though not perfectly for sure.
I don't share Doc's degree of enthusiasm about HRC, but directionally he's correct.
There's almost no one who could have, much less would have, convinced so many people not to be concerned with "just the flu" than Trump. The degree of arrogance and petulance is unmatched, coupled with a megaphone unparalleled in our history. At a minimum, that's cost tens of thousands of lives and trillions of economic damage.
Jeb would have been immensely more competent, with instincts far superior at every darn step. Anyone actually question that, now?
Obama? Romney, McCain?
There's no question that any of these would have been far superior in their management of this challenge. None of them would have denied the science, the harsh reality of the impending calamity. And all of them would have called their government to action much earlier, demanding progress.
Which doesn't mean that there wouldn't have been screw ups, or that any of them would have necessarily put the country in lockdown soon enough to totally avoid the catastrophe (though weeks earlier).
There's no doubt in my mind that testing would not have been allowed to tumble along so slowly without the Chief Executive shaking it up much earlier.
And there's none of these who would have so dumbly said "we're not a shipping clerk" and resisted federalizing the supply and distribution of essential materials to combat the virus, from testing, to PPE's, to ventilators. That would have been moved on by any of these, early on.
And they'd be looking at the food system and getting PPE's to that channel. It's critical to keep that flowing.
It would still be very, very rough, but the magnitude of damage would have been much lower.
But here we are. We have the POTUS we have.
Thank god he appears to be scared now.
Still stupid, still petulant, but finally letting the science and truth be told to the American people.
And that's a good thing.