The United States lost 1.2 million people, more than any country on the globe, to COVID. The obvious question is why?
President Donald Trump recklessly and negligently politicized COVID from the very beginning: He was up for reelection and he knew many people would die. His main tactic was avoidance: to downplay the severity of the virus, deny any and all responsibility, and then to blame the Democratic governors for mismanagement. It was a complete failure of Trump’s leadership.