WaPo: "Not clueless and hapless. Malevolent."

It's high time we get real about what's happening.

Clueless, hapless & malevolent.
Each of the three does not preclude either of the other 2.

Ever since “insane, traitorous fascist” became too much of a mouthful for everyday use.

Quote: The preponderance of the evidence points to something far worse.

Trump has been widely and repeatedly informed by his own and other experts for many months that his failure to take coronavirus more seriously could have utterly catastrophic consequences, that it could result in widespread suffering and needless deaths.

It isn’t enough to point out that Trump repeatedly ignored that advice. What’s more important is that Trump has repeatedly seen the predicted consequences of those failures come to pass, and is seeing that right now.

Yet Trump still continues not just to downplay the severity of the virus’s continuing toll, but also to actively discourage current efforts to mitigate the spread — by failing to set an example through mask-wearing, for instance — and to urge the very sort of rapid reopening that has already contributed to catastrophic outcomes.

The carnage is mounting once again. Total cases just hit 3 million. They have risen in 37 states over the last two weeks — hitting single-day records in six — and the national rolling average of 50,000 new daily cases is far outpacing June’s.

There’s no doubt that the decision to reopen rapidly in many states — which Trump urged — has played some kind of important role in the current surges. As a former Baltimore health commissioner noted: “The key is we did not have to be here right now.”

Yet Trump has shown zero signs of even trying to grapple with the cause and effect behind these new circumstances. Instead, he continues to lie about them, falsely claiming we have the lowest mortality rate in the world, falsely claiming that “99 percent” of cases are “totally harmless,” and absurdly claiming the virus will “disappear.” Unquote.

Trump is aiding the virus in spreading and killing people. He truly is EVIL.

He's trying to save his own ass from the snapping jaws of the truth, not innocently unable to grasp or accept it. He's the kind of guy who, fleeing from police, would start a fire in an orphanage to distract his pursuers.

Metaphorically and really. And doesn't care about the carnage.

Because he thinks/knows that he won't have to stick around to clean up or make amends.

Are all of the other (r)epuglicons part of this same scheme? Is there a master-plan to escape the wrath? Can putin really accommodate all of these in the USSR?