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- zaq6
Good points, so copy & paste here from Reddit
Republicans, and most lay political observers, assume that everything that happens is unavoidable. That one just drives the car fast and hard as they can and when it breaks it breaks. Things like putting oil, coolant, new filters, etc in the car don't occur to them because they have no idea have the car runs in the first place.
Bush presided over calamity after calamity. We had the Tech bubble, 9/11, Katrina, Housing market collapse, etc. It was never Bush's fault. Everything was always some magically unavoidable disaster that Bush was just unlucky enough to get burdened with. Meaning it created 2 recessions and increased deficits by records.
Obama on the other hand dealt with a collapse economy (inherited), Hurricane Sandy, Boston Marathon Bombing, deepwater horizon, refugees crisis, Benghazi, etc and the economy never dipped and deficits continued to go down. On the pandemic front Obama managed Swine Flu, Avian Bird Flu, and Zika virus. Obama better managed those unavoidable disasters that overtook Bush's administration.
Now Trump is President and we are back to being told every terrible thing in the world is unavoidable. Trump fumbled the response to Hurricane Irma and Maria, was on Twitter insulting the west coast during wild fires instead of helping, and after being briefed back in JANUARY about COVID19 spent 2 months ignoring his own agencies and claiming it would just blow over.
Leadership matters. These calamities aren't unavoidable. Republicans simply do not take the precautions required to avert them.
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- Good leadership is hard to find in these troubled times. Stupidity wins more and more.