Mismanaging the US Economy: How Trump Defeats Himself

https://www.theglobalist.com/united-states-donald-trump-coronavirus-pandemic-covid19-unemployment-2020-presidential-elections/

Whatever Donald Trump’s grievous failings on fact-based, empathetic leadership or his various failures on managing the coronavirus pandemic and displaying compelling leadership by mitigating racial division, it is another lost opportunity that is the only one that is truly surprising.

Trump’s economic short-sightedness

Trump’s failure to craft an effective economic response to the COVID 19 pandemic is extremely short-sighted for a politician who is otherwise so focused on the importance of a solid economic performance.

 

But Trump’s real challenge is the separate and far more consequential erosion of public confidence in his skills as ship’s captain.

The odds that Mr. Trump can convince voters to book tickets on a second voyage he would command yet again despite careening the previous one onto the rocks are diminishing