The Trump Presidency Is Over
Mar 30, 2020 10:58:26 #
"It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the con man behind the curtain.
Peter Wehner
Contributing writer at The Atlantic and senior fellow at EPPC
March 13, 2020
When, in January 2016, I wrote that despite being a lifelong Republican who worked in the previous three GOP administrations,
I would never vote for Donald Trump, even though his administration would align much more with my policy views than a Hillary Clinton presidency would, a lot of my Republican friends were befuddled. How could I not vote for a person who checked far more of my policy boxes than his opponent?
What I explained then, and what I have said many times since, is that Trump is fundamentally unfit—intellectually, morally, temperamentally, and psychologically—for office.
For me, that is the paramount consideration in electing a president, in part because at some point it’s reasonable to expect that a president will face an unexpected crisis—and at that point, the president’s judgment and discernment, his character and leadership ability, will really matter.
“Mr. Trump has no desire to acquaint himself with most issues, let alone master them” is how I put it four years ago.
“No major presidential candidate has ever been quite as disdainful of knowledge, as indifferent to facts, as untroubled by his benightedness.”
I added this:
Mr. Trump’s virulent combination of ignorance, emotional instability, demagogy, solipsism and vindictiveness would do more than result in a failed presidency; it could very well lead to national catastrophe.
The prospect of Donald Trump as commander in chief should send a chill down the spine of every American.
It took until the second half of Trump’s first term, but the crisis has arrived in the form of the coronavirus pandemic, and it’s hard to name a president who has been as overwhelmed by a crisis as the coronavirus has overwhelmed Donald Trump."
Peter Wehner
Contributing writer at The Atlantic and senior fellow at EPPC
March 13, 2020
When, in January 2016, I wrote that despite being a lifelong Republican who worked in the previous three GOP administrations,
I would never vote for Donald Trump, even though his administration would align much more with my policy views than a Hillary Clinton presidency would, a lot of my Republican friends were befuddled. How could I not vote for a person who checked far more of my policy boxes than his opponent?
What I explained then, and what I have said many times since, is that Trump is fundamentally unfit—intellectually, morally, temperamentally, and psychologically—for office.
For me, that is the paramount consideration in electing a president, in part because at some point it’s reasonable to expect that a president will face an unexpected crisis—and at that point, the president’s judgment and discernment, his character and leadership ability, will really matter.
“Mr. Trump has no desire to acquaint himself with most issues, let alone master them” is how I put it four years ago.
“No major presidential candidate has ever been quite as disdainful of knowledge, as indifferent to facts, as untroubled by his benightedness.”
I added this:
Mr. Trump’s virulent combination of ignorance, emotional instability, demagogy, solipsism and vindictiveness would do more than result in a failed presidency; it could very well lead to national catastrophe.
The prospect of Donald Trump as commander in chief should send a chill down the spine of every American.
It took until the second half of Trump’s first term, but the crisis has arrived in the form of the coronavirus pandemic, and it’s hard to name a president who has been as overwhelmed by a crisis as the coronavirus has overwhelmed Donald Trump."
Mar 30, 2020 10:59:21 #
To be sure, the president isn’t responsible for either the coronavirus or the disease it causes, COVID-19, and he couldn’t have stopped it from hitting our shores even if he had done everything right.
Nor is it the case that the president hasn’t done anything right; in fact, his decision to implement a travel ban on China was prudent.
And any narrative that attempts to pin all of the blame on Trump for the coronavirus is simply unfair. The temptation among the president’s critics to use the pandemic to get back at Trump for every bad thing he’s done should be resisted, and schadenfreude is never a good look.
That said, the president and his administration are responsible for grave, costly errors, most especially the epic manufacturing failures in diagnostic testing, the decision to test too few people, the delay in expanding testing to labs outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and problems in the supply chain.
These mistakes have left us blind and badly behind the curve, and, for a few crucial weeks, they created a false sense of security.
What we now know is that the coronavirus silently spread for several weeks, without us being aware of it and while we were doing nothing to stop it.
Containment and mitigation efforts could have significantly slowed its spread at an early, critical point, but we frittered away that opportunity.
“They’ve simply lost time they can’t make up.
You can’t get back six weeks of blindness,” Jeremy Konyndyk, who helped oversee the international response to Ebola during the Obama administration and is a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, told The Washington Post.
“To the extent that there’s someone to blame here, the blame is on poor, chaotic management from the White House and failure to acknowledge the big picture.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/peter-wehner-trump-presidency-over/607969/
Nor is it the case that the president hasn’t done anything right; in fact, his decision to implement a travel ban on China was prudent.
And any narrative that attempts to pin all of the blame on Trump for the coronavirus is simply unfair. The temptation among the president’s critics to use the pandemic to get back at Trump for every bad thing he’s done should be resisted, and schadenfreude is never a good look.
That said, the president and his administration are responsible for grave, costly errors, most especially the epic manufacturing failures in diagnostic testing, the decision to test too few people, the delay in expanding testing to labs outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and problems in the supply chain.
These mistakes have left us blind and badly behind the curve, and, for a few crucial weeks, they created a false sense of security.
What we now know is that the coronavirus silently spread for several weeks, without us being aware of it and while we were doing nothing to stop it.
Containment and mitigation efforts could have significantly slowed its spread at an early, critical point, but we frittered away that opportunity.
“They’ve simply lost time they can’t make up.
You can’t get back six weeks of blindness,” Jeremy Konyndyk, who helped oversee the international response to Ebola during the Obama administration and is a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, told The Washington Post.
“To the extent that there’s someone to blame here, the blame is on poor, chaotic management from the White House and failure to acknowledge the big picture.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/peter-wehner-trump-presidency-over/607969/
Mar 30, 2020 11:01:51 #
BigWahoo wrote:
"It has taken a good deal longer than it shou... (show quote)
More propaganda from a bed wetter quoting a bed wetter. Your glass will always be half empty to empty.
Mar 30, 2020 11:04:59 #
yhtomit wrote:
More propaganda from a bed wetter quoting a bed wetter. Your glass will always be half empty to empty.
Nailed it right on the head!
Mar 30, 2020 11:08:28 #
BigWahoo wrote:
"It has taken a good deal longer than it shou... (show quote)
We will see come November.
Mar 30, 2020 11:18:32 #
The Democrats and Never-Trumpers all did nothing during the early period of the virus and warned us about nothing while they were all 100% behind impeaching the President for nothing. Meanwhile, Trump was showing the emotional intelligence to do his job and take early and unprecedented steps to lead our government's response. Over 6,000 Americans died under Obama's response to H1N1 which was late and nowhere near what Trump has done. If Trump has not been perfect what does that make Obama to be? Yet we heard no criticism of Obama period.
Haters will hate as that's the only thing they can do in their pathetic prison of hate.
Haters will hate as that's the only thing they can do in their pathetic prison of hate.
Mar 30, 2020 12:45:37 #
Fotoartist wrote:
The Democrats and Never-Trumpers all did nothing d... (show quote)
"Trump is what happens when a president has no emotional intelligence"
Trump has said he has no time to read.
“I never have,” he said in 2016.
“I’m always busy doing a lot.”
People who brief him report a gnat-like attention span.
Trump’s frequent accusation that others are stupid or “low IQ” sits uncomfortably with his own shocking ignorance of history, science and economics.
It is evident that Trump’s combination of ignorance and arrogance exposes the United States to needless global ridicule.
But Trump’s most consequential deficit may lie in his emotional intelligence — what political scientist Joseph Nye defines as “the self-mastery, discipline and empathic capacity that allows leaders to channel their personal passions and attract others.”
Mar 30, 2020 12:59:19 #
BigWahoo wrote:
"Trump is what happens when a president has n... (show quote)
An excellent explanation of the obama... Thank you.
Mar 30, 2020 13:34:44 #
BigWahoo wrote:
"It has taken a good deal longer than it shou... (show quote)
ROTFLMFAO Trumps Presidency is over AGAIN? LOL more of the same pulled out of the swamp conspiracies. Lol You have no shame posting this crap on a daily basis do you??
Mar 30, 2020 13:38:51 #
Mar 30, 2020 16:56:33 #
tradio wrote:
Nailed it right on the head!
Did anybody notice that the governors of the northern East coast and West coast are DemoKKKraps who did very little to prepare
for the Kung Flu pandemic that the Chinese bestowed upon us. They and the butt kissing newspapers did and are doing nothing but
blaming Trump when every governor didn't try to take care of their own people on their own. Hillary was a too big traitor who
wouldn't be capable of running this country from jail, Obama would be too busy sucking up to the Hollywood 'elites' or flying to
fund raisers and Biden would be spending his time looking up on how to spell 'pandemic' and 'impeachment' what it means.
Mar 30, 2020 17:02:06 #
Checkmate wrote:
b Did anybody notice that the governors of the no... (show quote)
That’s because they don’t want him to have a second term plain and simple
Mar 30, 2020 18:43:52 #
soba1 wrote:
That’s because they don’t want him to have a second term plain and simple
You mean like the gop senators.
Mar 30, 2020 20:34:48 #
Shutterbug1697
Loc: Northeast
Checkmate wrote:
b Did anybody notice that the governors of the no... (show quote)
Yet it was trump who sent 17.8 tons of medical supplies and equipment to Chins in February, DEPLETING the US stockpile!
Mar 30, 2020 20:44:11 #
Shutterbug1697 wrote:
Yet it was trump who sent 17.8 tons of medical supplies and equipment to Chins in February, DEPLETING the US stockpile!
OMFGYAS
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