It seems to me that we need a new concept to discuss the Trump/GOP reaction to the coronavirus disaster. Everyone knows about the Big Lie, which is so outlandish people can't believe it's a lie. What we have now is the Big Fail, so extreme that people can't process it 1/

I mean, if you've spent three years believing that Trump Made America Great Again, how do you deal with the fact that >1000 Americans are dying of Covid-19 each day, compared with 6 (six) in Italy? 2/

There's a lot of grasping at straws. I see that Trump is gloating over new outbreaks in some countries, like Australia, that thought they had it beat. And that is a cause for concern. But bear in mind what AU's outbreak looks like compared to ours 3/

And Australia is imposing a full lockdown in Melbourne to stop this outbreak in its tracks; Florida, which is losing 180 people a day compared with Australia's 8, won't even require face masks and is reopening schools 4/

The point is that the contrast between the Trump hagiography and the reality of one of history's greatest policy failures is too great for the faithful (and of course Trump himself) to process. So they're becoming increasingly delusional 5/

To be a Trump supporter now is to be constantly at war with reality. And it's terrifying to think what that will mean if Trump loses the election 6/