Yes, this is all Trump's fault

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David Frum counts the ways (Generally I'm not inclined to post anything by Frum but he's spot on in this case)

Some pieces don’t warrant much in terms of extensive commentary. The title of conservative writer David Frum’s article—“This Is Trump’s Fault”—newly published in the Atlantic, is self-explanatory, as are the facts he cites.

Trump now fancies himself a “wartime president.” How is his war going? By the end of March, the coronavirus had killed more Americans than the 9/11 attacks. By the first weekend in April, the virus had killed more Americans than any single battle of the Civil War. By Easter, it may have killed more Americans than the Korean War. On the present trajectory, it will kill, by late April, more Americans than Vietnam. Having earlier promised that casualties could be held near zero, Trump now claims he will have done a “very good job” if the toll is held below 200,000 dead.

Frum swiftly lists the ways that yes, this is Trump’s fault.

That the pandemic occurred is not Trump’s fault. The utter unpreparedness of the United States for a pandemic is Trump’s fault. The loss of stockpiled respirators to breakage because the federal government let maintenance contracts lapse in 2018 is Trump’s fault. The failure to store sufficient protective medical gear in the national arsenal is Trump’s fault. That states are bidding against other states for equipment, paying many multiples of the precrisis price for ventilators, is Trump’s fault. Air travelers summoned home and forced to stand for hours in dense airport crowds alongside infected people? That was Trump’s fault too. Ten weeks of insisting that the coronavirus is a harmless flu that would miraculously go away on its own? Trump’s fault too.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/7/1935283/-Yes-this-is-all-Trump-s-fault-David-Frum-for-the-Atlantic?detail=emaildkre

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1. The Atlantic article

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/americans-are-paying-the-price-for-trumps-failures/609532/

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2. Maybe the virus itself isn't his fault

but countless unnecessary deaths are.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Yes. But until his base reaches that conclusion, nothing will happen.