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What strikes me about Trump right now is not the vileness and hatred — we knew all that — but the naked display of panic, his obvious awareness that he can't rise to this moment 1/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/us/politics/trump-mt-rushmore.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
More than three years into his term, Trump confronted his first real crises — Covid-19 and a remarkable surge of national awareness over racism. Another president might have sought to deal with these crises. Trump didn't even try 2/
He could have listened to experts and done what almost every Western leader did — try to contain the pandemic. Instead, he's just dug deeper and deeper into denial. He still won't wear a mask! 3/ https://twitter.com/TBPInvictus/status/1279131111331954688
And he's shown remarkable persistence in his belief that racism will work for him if only he turns the volume even higher, despite the evidence of polls 4/
It all amounts to a kind of toxic incompetence: he can't do his job, he knows he can't do it, but he'll destroy the country rather than admit his own inadequacy. I wonder how much damage he'll do if he loses, but is still in the White House for 10 weeks? 5/
