Quote Originally Posted by Cyclops View Post
Biden is a terrible candidate, worse on paper than Trump (although Trumps utter incompetence has come home to roost with the Coronavirus disaster) as a member of a former team, so representing a narrower faction in society than a healthy democracy requites. Attempts to build dynasties or pseudo-dynasties are really bad for democracies, and he amounts to Obama family royalty. This stinks as badly as H Clinton, Bush Jnr and Gore.

Bush Snr is the exception to the rule, but he wasn't so visibly frail as this cipher.
The US's experience of C19 has been broadly comparable to that of many other western states (UK, France, Spain, and Italy). The president's alleged "utter incompetence" is little more than a preconceived judgement expressed through a variety of fabricated media narratives (HCQ, racism, state's rights etc.). It is little wonder that with so few of the criticisms of the WH's response being substantive, that the president's C19 response ratings exceed those of the press.

The reality is that we all have very little choice but to move with developments as they come, be that in terms of medical or economic advice. For that reason, it seems unlikely that a different president would have produced different results. What we're seeing right now in the US is a desperate attempt by the liberal press and liberal activists to politicize the Covid crisis to their advantage for the election. Will it work? Possibly.