Try paying attention to how a president actually governs and how they've affected material conditions. If you look at it that way, Trump is at worst the level of Obama (who started 5 new wars), and several orders of magnitude less bad than W or Bill Clinton. Remember, Lincoln project wants to invade Iran/Vz/Russia. Fuck those war criminals

  • communistthrowaway69 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    What, and Vietnam did? They have a tenth of our resources and did 10,000x more with it.

    It is literally right wing shit to think that the United States' Federal Government was unable to do anything about this. That it would be unable to do testing and contact tracing in a way that would significantly have changed the infection rates. That it had no access or ability to seize and command the production and resources it needed to take this pandemic seriously.

    It was unwilling and uninterested. To a self destructive degree, honestly. That's true of both parties, but not to an equal extent.

    Saying Trump did no worse than anyone else would have is fucking insane. It's to say that the US isn't declining, isn't rapidly deteriorating, and that no one could have done things differently, which just obviously isn't fucking true.

    • hagensfohawk [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Sure, the US government could have done things better in the abstract. But considering real-world conditions, this virus is a perfect storm for all of the faults in American political economy and social life.