Six months and 190,000 deaths later, the US continues to be uniquely devastated by the ongoing pandemic. The federal government still hasn’t developed a comprehensive plan to get the situation under control, and the president has been more occupied with Twitter browbeating and holding potential superspreader campaign events than he has with tackling the virus. Meanwhile, he’s consistently trailed Biden in the polls.
So, instead of running on his record, Trump’s campaign has had to resort to stoking wildly exaggerated fears about Joe Biden. At the same time, however, Trump wants the American people to buy that he didn’t level with them about the coronavirus because he didn’t want to stoke fear.
Taken together, those talking points are incoherent — but by now we understand that incoherency is a feature, not a bug, of Trumpism.
Vox- 9/10/20

