Why Isn’t Trump Riding High?

One surprise with Covid-19 is not what happened but what didn’t happen.

Although the pandemic might yet benefit President Trump — through heightened xenophobia, increased acceptance of authoritarian leadership, racial and ethnic schism — the political winds have not, to date, shifted in Trump’s direction.

In fact, the opposite is the case. CONT.

Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times


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