re: #163 jaunte

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This murderously incompetent administration can’t be gone soon enough.

Again, at some point incompetence and malevolence converge to the point they’re indistinguishable.

In this case, the inaction was in part rooted in a specific iteration of malevolence, the belief (which turned out to be wrong) that only parts of the country that opposed Trump would seriously suffer and die. Trump mused openly about protecting Florida from NY, NJ and CT. 2/

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 1, 2021

This is crucial to understanding the role that *toxic illiberalism* played in the failed coronavirus response.

The false-choice frame offered by some commentators — Trump is either Mussolini or incompetent — utterly fails to account for this. 4/4https://t.co/MvpMOVcLKS pic.twitter.com/SuVNJJLiEC

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 1, 2021