This could be Trump’s worst mistake ever

The Trump administration has made any number of mistakes as it has grappled with the worst crisis since World War II; if it goes through with its plans to wind down its coronavirus task force around Memorial Day that decision will surely rank among the worst.

It’s as if in 1942, three years before Germany was defeated, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had said, “Gee, it’s well past time to wrap up this tiresome war against the Nazis.”

The coronavirus task force has provided much-needed scientific and public health expertise to President Donald Trump, who generally places great store on the findings of his own gut rather than on the findings of experts. Trump, understandably, wants to change the narrative from fighting the virus to opening up the economy, but biology won’t be so easily corralled. Continue reading.