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In reply to the discussion: Damn. Watching HRC on MSNBC and I feel a sense of loss for America and the World with having her [View all]Johnny2X2X
(24,304 posts)By just being mature enough to let the experts take the lead and take the point.
People forget when Covid first became a crisis here, that everyone lamented it politically. "Well, re-election is guaranteed for Trump now, facing a crisis like this will allow him to be the hero for leading the country and he won't even have to do anything but get out of the way." There were many posts here aout this. And he couldn't even do that. It was pure chaos here as he made the pandemic all about him. He simply couldn't let the experts set the policy, he had to pretend to be the expert on everything.
Sure, Republicans still would have fought Hillary whatever path she chose, but she would have made sure everything about Coid was as free from politics as possible. The medical experts would have been front and center, not the president.