This paragraph from Jon Chait's latest is the perfect summary of Trump's presidency:
The Trump administration’s catastrophic response to the coronavirus, like many of the administration’s crimes and blunders, combined a broader Republican ideological failure with Donald Trump’s idiosyncratic pathologies. The broader ideological failure is the right’s paranoid rejection of science and empiricism, which has been building up for decades. The unique Trumpian contribution — one that almost no other Republican president would share — is an almost sociopathic indifference to the well-being of Americans who didn’t vote for him.
It accurately captures how Trump combines the very worst of Republican politics (though perhaps underplaying their contempt for all government action, not just science) and the very worst of Trump's wretched lack of humanity.
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