Thread by @paulkrugman, More about the coronavirus relief debacle: What should Republicans have known, and [...]

More about the coronavirus relief debacle: What should Republicans have known, and when should they have known it? 1/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/opinion/republicans-unemployed-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Opinion | Republicans Couldn’t Care Less About the Unemployed

Their cruelty and ignorance are creating another gratuitous disaster.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/opinion/republicans-unemployed-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

According to Times reporting, in April the WH was convinced that we'd follow Italy's trajectory, with the pandemic rapidly fading away 2/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-response-failure-leadership.html

Inside Trump’s Failure: The Rush to Abandon Leadership Role on the Virus

The roots of the nation’s current inability to control the pandemic can be traced to mid-April, when the White House embraced overly rosy projections to proclaim victory and move on.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-response-failure-leadership.html

By May, however, it was obvious that this wasn't happening — and Democrats moved quickly to enact a new relief bill 3/

Republicans, however, turned a blind eye; Trump, it's now clear, surrounded himself with toadies who assured their naked emperor that he was wearing the finest of clothes. And so they did nothing as catastrophe approached 4/

Seriously, these are people I wouldn't trust to water my houseplants. And no way would I trust them to feed my cat 5/

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