As Jacinda Arden's leadership during the pandemic has been rewarded with re-election, it seems timely that America seeing its largest numbers of new cases since July. Where I am, there is little spread, our school is testing like crazy and while we've had a handful of positive tests, we have not seemed to have any full blown cases of Covid. As we know, most people who get it won't show much of any symptoms, so we need to test the hell out of everyone. This is hard work, but it's not impossible by any stretch of the imagination. Since my state is not run by morons, we've done a pretty good job with testing, and while we are seeing a spike in infection rates in some parts of the state (mainly areas with colleges and casinos) it's not running wild.
Let's say the best case scenario unfolds and Dems win the "trifecta" in November. We will then have the long lame duck period where Trump will fume and run his mouth and Republicans in the Senate will try and screw over Biden by making things worse - trying to replay their 2009 playbook. The ability of the Biden team to get the reasonable half of the country on board with certain policies is critical. He's going to be dealing with this through the first 100 days, while trying to pass voting rights legislation, immigration reform, tax code revisions and environmental legislation. Oh, and he might be expanding the Supreme Court.
After four years of Mr. Golf Course/Executive Time, it seems like there's no way any one person could do this, As I've been saying, the next president will also be charged with re-invigorating the public sector. This is the product of a minority of Americans electing a man and a party who don't really want to govern.
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