A President who ought to be unifying the country seems to be using his office to indulge his own need for attention | Analysis by stcollinson
Haunted by an invisible pathogen that has drained trademark energy and optimism from American life, the ordeal has clearly not drawn the country together -- it's tearing it further apart. And there is still no clear path out of the darkness.The stasis is deepened because as every state moves toward some kind of opening, there is no convincing metric to show conclusively whether the battle is being won.
This all came as the President -- who is dosing up on hydroxychloroquine, a drug that his own government says is ineffective against Covid-19 -- made yet another of his victory declarations over the virus. He seemingly regards more than 93,000 deaths in a pandemic he had said would not trouble the United States as a marker not of personal failure but great success.
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