The damage isn’t just Trump’s direct efforts to overturn the election. It’s that we’ve desperately needed federal leadership, coordination, and funding to accelerate the vaccine rollout, and instead, the President and his enablers are spending their time yelling at Georgia’s SoS.
The harm of what Trump does obscures the harm of what he fails to do, but people are dying because he only cares about being president, rather than about doing the job of the president.

And it’s not just what he doesn’t do. It’s what he distract or impedes others from doing.
Back in May I wrote that, on coronavirus, we didn’t have a president, and because of that, there was no federal plan. It’s January and that’s still true.

It won’t be true for much longer, but that won’t bring back those who were lost. https://www.vox.com/2020/5/13/21255221/trump-coronavirus-plan-covid-reopening-lockdown-liberate
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